Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
AI agents are being sold as democratic and participatory: a way to decentralise AI by giving every citizen a personal proxy. But is replacing friction with proxies necessarily more democratic? Or does it shift political voice into infrastructure that remains standardised and centrally structured?
There will be lots of detailed analysis of this I'm sure, but a few immediate thoughts
- it's premised on the absolute inevitability of more people using more AI at work, despite also saying that businesses are struggling to find viable use cases
"Anatomy of an AI Coup" examines a shift of power from policy makers and bureaucrats to those with the skill to train and fine-tune large language models - often behind system prompts, which further calibrate the gov. worker's options toward the decisions of those who calibrate the system.
India’s digital public infrastructure is going global—open-source, low-cost, scalable, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar. But big questions remain, she says: What kind of states are we building? Whose power does it serve? What politics are other nations importing? www.techpolicy.press/indias-digit...
One big, cruel grift bankrolled by some the worst men - and a reminder that all education is political.
Quite aside from anything else, this is what it looks like in Gaza as people try to return home. (📷: Al-Jazeera)
That they chose “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” a photograph of workers during the Great Depression, and superimposed the images of some of the top figures of the new Gilded Age tells you a lot about the role of labor in AI—it’s the Mechanical Turk all over.
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Anna Dent
Eryk Salvaggio
Justin Hendrix
Speaking at India’s AI Impact Summit, a professor envisioned AI agents serving as personal proxies for every Indian, but this raises questions about whether embedding hallucinatory, probabilistic systems into everyday life strengthens democratic participation, Anuradha Sajjanhar writes.
Charles Logan
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
A talk at India's AI Impact Summit envisioned AI agents as personal proxies that negotiate, coordinate and interface on one’s behalf, Anuradha Sajjanhar writes.
TIME Magazine has named the 'Architects of AI' its Person of the Year, who include Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li
Louise Amoore
Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
Tech Policy Press
TIME Magazine has named the 'Architects of AI' its Person of the Year, who include Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
