Exposure Therapy - AI Resistance Inspired by AI Hype

Between the two distant poles of thought on Artificial Intelligence - those of abolitionism and blind enthusiasm - there lays an infinite and fertile ground for eclectic resistance.In my own views I sit closer to abolition than anything, as looking at AI is more or less my day job I never struggle to find new mobilisations of it which I object to, or new ways in which old objections can be renewed by fresh horrors. I think my judgements are right, of course, I even think I can defend them with at least some clarity with people who acknowledge something at least vaguely resembling the material reality I perceive (which is not everyone). I’m also aware though of how consuming the path to my position is, how much exploration and thought it takes to define, never mind understand the term ‘AI’ and the many technologies which fall vaguely into its ever expansive category. Most people won’t engage with that process, nor should they - the world is loaded enough with bad things and while…