Privacy is just the beginning of the debate over tech

Often, talking about community care can sound sappy and touchy-feely. But whether we stand with each other in times of need has real, tangible effects on who has access to fundamental freedoms.

As significant parts of the tech community rush headlong towards an AI-enhanced future, this article about the tendencies of AI to repeat and deepen existing unjust social structures provides a much-needed place to pause, reflect and discuss.

“AI is currently at the service of what (Henri) Bergson called ready-made problems; problems based on unexamined assumptions and institutional agendas, (which presuppose) solutions constructed from the same conceptual asbestos.”

Surveillance tech is not implemented symmetrically – the poor and disenfranchised are the least able to opt out. And what is first used against people with limited power will end up being rolled out to the majority. We might need to consider standing with each other and working collectively towards an intentionally ‘anti-fascist’ AI – “a project based on solidarity, mutual aid and collective care.”