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The term "AI" is like a miasma. It's hard to contain or define. For this particular exercise, I define through five properties. It has an agenda, which is filtered through a promise of what it can do, propelled forward by a collaborative political system, put in place by a specific business […]

Racism has been around for centuries, and the current iteration of "AI" for half a decade, so it seems foolish to compare the too. But specifically because of the rapid adoption of "AI" in the public sphere without criticality, some compare it to historical precedent like "the railroad" or "the […]

I look at how a technology like Eli Whitney's cotton gin had an effect on slavery in the United States. The tool, it can be argued, is not political. But in context, it is a destructive force (most historians point to the cotton gin as a major reason that the South became dependent on the […]