AI already poses an immediate danger to our freedom, livelihood, and even our very survival. We don’t need to wait on the singularity for AI to become existential – the resistance starts now. A conversation with Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths Department of Computing).

Find Dan on Twitter, Mastodon, or visit his website

Sources:

• Dan’s book – Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
• Dan McQuillan – Mental health and artificial intelligence: losing your voice
• Miranda Fricker – Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
• Achille Mbembe – Necropolitics
• Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz – Science for the post-normal age
• Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
• The Cybernetic Brain – Sketches of Another Future 
• Radical Technology (illustrated by Clifford Harper)

Further Reading:

• María Puig de la Bellacasa – Matters of Care
• Isabelle Stengers – Cosmopolitics I
• Donna Haraway – Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
• Using ChatGPT in mental health care (Koko) 
  • Startup Uses AI Chatbot to Provide Mental Health Counseling and Then Realizes It ‘Feels Weird’
  • Controversy erupts over non-consensual AI mental health experiment
• The Lucas Plan
• Articles on GKN factory occupation in Italy: 
  • Italy’s Longest-Ever Factory Occupation Shows How Workers Can Transform Production
  • An Eco-Revolution of the Working Class? What We Can Learn from the Former GKN Factory in Italy

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