“The Political Construction of AI”, produced by the Turkish organization bianet.org, published an interview with Larry Lohmann, activist with the UK-based The Corner House and member of the WRM Advisory Committee. He characterizes ‘artificial intelligence’ (‘AI’) as a form of “machine colonialism” marked by indefinitely-ballooning energy consumption and brutal grabs of water and low- and zero-cost labor. Like other industrial technologies, Lohmann notes, ‘AI’ takes advantage of the 19th-century emergence of an “abstract” energy that subordinates a variety of other diverse energies into a single overarching fuel for capital. As neoliberalism descends into fascism, democratic resistance to the centuries-old but now bloated capitalist strategy of ‘AI’ will require more sharing and unity between labor and ecology movements. The interview is available on The Corner House website, in English, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese, here.
“The Political Construction of AI”, produced by the Turkish organization bianet.org, recently interviewed Larry Lohmann, from The Corner House and a member of the WRM Advisory Committee. He characterizes ‘artificial intelligence’ (‘AI’) as a form of “machine colonialism” marked by indefinitely-ballooning energy consumption and brutal grabs of water and low- and zero-cost labour.