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Diversifying and Decolonising the University Episode 20: Resisting AI, Part 2 with Dan McQuillan. Now the positive pathway. "Less statistical inference More mutual care". #feminism, #ClimateChange, #TechnoFascism, #AI #generativeAI #Decolonise

Diversifying and Decolonising the University Episode 20: Resisting AI, Part 1 with Dan McQuillan. #ResistingAI #AI #Decolonise #Education #NeoColonialism

@JacsaLewis I hope so. I've asked the organiser.

"AI isn't open source, it's an open sore"

People need to learn to apply Maya Angelou's wisdom to AI harms. "My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can’t you get it the first time?"

RT @UVWunion: 🚨 BREAKING: ALL EYES ON @SolaceWomensAid 🚨 100s gathered outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall last night at a rally to defend l…

"Sometimes all it takes is for the first person to step forward, or to say no, and for us to rally around so it’s easier for the next person. In the end, it’s not about the technology—it’s about the people."

"We’re seeing in real time that there are no practical technical measures preventing someone from taking a spanner to the technology that keeps our government stable, that keeps society running every day—despite the very real consequences."

RT @PplsCityCouncil: SAMOHI STUDENT WALKOUT - Students all over Los Angeles are walking out of school and hitting the streets! Santa Moni…

@o_pariah_o Looks good - thanks for the heads up

Governing what? The harms are empirical, the benefits are speculative (imaginary) 2) 'Governing' a harmful transformation is abandoning responsibility in favour of rewards 3) The industry (not) being governed is 100% aligned with forces of regulatory capture (Exhibit A: the USA)

@CienciaxPueblo I'm not sure, to be honest. I'll ask the publisher.

"this guy knows real estate"

Ah, the UK's Data Use and Access Bill - flogging NHS data to startups and making it easier for algorithms to refuse benefits claims. Never a 'better' time to be teaching an ethics course to computing students (as I am). Never mind, it's all for 'growth'! 🎉

@CellardLoup I saw that event. Looked great. Any recordings?

Uni of California Press says of a new volume: "The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive 'big data' regimes'". I say "Wtf? Read Resisting AI!"

@P_Gooding @StopOxevision I think this is role of tools like the Matrix of Convivial Technologies and for people's councils: to assess technologies up front for their likely benefits and harms and to refuse them where necessary