de-optimisation as degrowth #resistingAI #climatejustice

Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part II: Labor Organizing and Environmental Justice in Tech, Past and Present' - great piece by https://twitter.com/tamigraph. While the focus is on climate justice, many of the proposals for action overlap with those in 'Resisting AI'
https://ainowinstitute.org/general/climate-justice-and-labor-rights-part-2-labor-organizing-and-environmental-justice-in-tech-past-and-present
#climatejustice #resistingai

On the first anniversary of 'Resisting AI' it's fantastic to have a podcast episode that captures the core arguments of the book, tramples on the generative AI hype, and explores possible futures through the technopolitical imaginaries of solarpunk! Huge thanks to @solarpunkcast
#ResistingAI #solarpunk #AI
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2mkdQqWPOoG9vkuXIxLXT0

It's been a year since the publication of 'Resisting AI', and I think it's fair to say the need to actually resist AI is more urgent than ever.
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/07/17/the-extensive-and-unconventional-reach-of-dan-mcquillans-resisting-ai/
#ResistingAI

I'm worried that a focus on the cultish TESCREAL ideologies of Silicon Valley might divert from the interplay between AI and the surrounding social and political currents, which are showing ever more signs of being in a pre-fascist historical phase
#AI #ResistingAI #TESCREAL #transhumanism #longtermism

"Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD" https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01850
- another reason why generative AI should be called degenerative AI (the main reason being the degenerative effect it will have when substituting for actual teaching, healthcare, therapy etc)
#AI #resistingAI #generativeAI

lol yes but this focus on talking heads diverts attention from the underlying political dynamics, including the need for social movements of resistance
#AI #resistingAI #xrisk

new blog post: 'The political intervention in AI that we need right now...' (opening remarks for the panel on 'Political Interventions in Data and AI' at #DataJustice2023) https://danmcquillan.org/the-political-intervention-in-ai-that-we-need-right-now.html
#AI #resistingAI #datajustice

"Dan McQuillan in conversation: Big data, deep learning, and hold the apocalypse" - a short interview in The Sociological Review
https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-2023/artificial-intelligence/dan-mcquillan-in-conversation/ #AI #ResistingAI

"The political intervention we need is a social movement to resist AI...".
My opening remarks for the panel on Political Interventions in Data and AI at the @DataJusticeLab conference last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rehm0QkKi7M&t=3614s
#AI #resistance #ResistingAI #data #justice

Well, it really doesn't mean any of those things. Using AI to 'optimise' care and learning actually means more precaritisation of workers who are already at breaking point and an algorithmic amplification of injustices already present in our social systems. Time to resist AI.
#AI #RishiSunak #UK #healthcare #schools #ResistingAI

„let us ask where the technologies are that people really need“ @danmcquillan on #AI #ResistingAI #KI #chatgpt

https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

A compelling but chilling episode of https://twitter.com/techwontsaveus with https://twitter.com/mjnblack discussing 'Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn' https://techwontsave.us/episode/168_pronatalism_and_silicon_valleys_right_wing_turn_w_julia_black Listening to this should convince you that, rather than generative AI, our biggest concern should eugenicist AI.
#AI #eugenics #resistingAI

RT Last week, Tohatoha CEO
https://twitter.com/mandylibrary
was joined by @sarahhbickerton, @danmcquillan & https://twitter.com/ktaiuru
for our panel discussion on #AI, Colonialism & Māori Data Sovereignty as part of #Techweek23. #ICYMI, you can now watch the recording of the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/gZ9rUUJK #AI #ResistingAI #Aotearoa #Maori #resistance

"UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog" https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog
- condenses in one go pretty much all the AI-driven necropolitics that I warned about it 'Resisting AI' 🤖💀☠️ #AI #asylum #refugees #ResistingAI

Thanks to https://twitter.com/_OliSharpe for a fair minded review of 'Resisting AI' , even though we differ on the form that urgent action should take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeO50vj5pz4 #ResistingAI #AI #resistance #criticalAI

great to bump into https://twitter.com/RhiFirth, author of the excellent 'Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action' https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340463/disaster-anarchy/. Here is a 'Serious Authors | Smiling Authors' animation of us with a copy of 'Resisting AI'
#AI #ResistingAI #MutualAid #machinelearning #solidarity

Sanela Jahic made this amazing video for her exhibition at @aksiomaorg.'No to AI, Yes to a Non-fascist Apparatus' features mesmerising photogrammetry of @56aInfoshop, video of an Amazon warehouses blockade and a text/voiceover by yours truly: https://vimeo.com/803431133
#AI #art #fascism #antifa #photogrammetry #ResistingAI

RT @critical_ai_bbk We are happy to kick off our seminar series on "Critical Voices on AI" with
@danmcquillan! Please register (for free) at http://critical-ai.uk. We are working on streaming this event as well, you can register as "online" and we will send you a link to the stream.
#ai #critical #birkbeck #resistingai

birkbeck seminar flyer 19.4 #resistingAI