AI is a political project: Karen Hao

A great interview with Karen Hao from Carole Cadwalladr.

This quote gave me horror chills:

" AI, as it is currently conceived by Silicon Valley, is a political project, and the central feature of this political project is to take agency away from people to ultimately make these entities, the empires, the monopolies on decision-making power in the world, if they can convince everyone that this is inevitable. “Don’t do anything about it,” you know, “just lie back and let it wash over you”. They have achieved their goal, which is to make sure that people don’t feel any ownership over their life, their data, their land, their resources, and their future any more."

‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future