Power and politics of Artificial Intelligence
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The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence has sparked both fascination and fear in recent years. This article argues against a monolithic conception of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an inexorable ‘megamachine’ and critiques its instrumentalization within a systemic model dominated by corporate interests. AI is a technology embedded in capitalist power relations that reinforce extractivism, dispossession, and exclusion on all scales. The article, presenting the special issue ‘Power and politics of AI’, vol.22(2), claims for a new political imagination that would enable a reconsideration of technology’s role in society from an emancipatory and democratic perspective.
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