I’ve seen a few articles like this one from Futurism: “CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue.” I totally get the appeal, but these articles are more anti-labor than anti-CEO. Because CEOs can’t actually be disciplined with threats of automation, these articles further entrench an inherently anti-labor...
Lots of skeptics are writing lots of good things about the AI hype, but so far, I’ve encountered relatively few attempts to explain why it’s happening at all. Here’s my contribution, mostly based Philp Agre’s work on the (so-called) internet revolution, which focuses less on the capabilities of the tech itself, as most...
The video opens with Rober standing in front of a fancy-looking box, saying:...
In “If We Burn,” Vincent Bevins recaps the mass protests of the 2010s. He argues that they’re communicative acts, but power has no way of negotiating with or interpreting them. They’re “illegible.”...
It’s so slow that I had time to take my phone out and take this video after I typed all the letters. How is this even possible?