"Until now, the Silicon Valley hype cycle has defined the terms of the artificial-intelligence debate, with advocates predicting universal affluence and the end of all diseases while critics worry that computers will steal not only our jobs but our creative pursuits too. Valerie Veatch's proposes a different possibility altogether: that "AI," if you can even call it that, is just the latest in a long line of grift-y attempts by powerful, exclusionary white guys to remake the whole world in their own image."
"Connecting the dots between AI's origins and such lamentable historical low points as the discredited racist eugenics movement of a century ago, and shining a light on the all-too-human work force grinding out content-moderation for dismal pay at the bottom of the AI stack, Ghost in the Machine argues that the only proper response to this would-be revolution is radical resistance."
Silicon Valley hype has promised universal affluence and the end of diseases while critics fear computers will take jobs and creative pursuits. An alternative interpretation casts AI as the latest grift by powerful, exclusionary white men intent on reshaping the world in their image. The origins of AI are traced to discredited racist eugenics, and the technology depends on underpaid, all-too-human content-moderation labor at its base. Provocative chapter titles, dystopian soundtracks, and labeled images ("AI" vs "NOT AI") are used to puncture technocratic narratives. Perspectives from philosophy, linguistics, and critical theory are mobilized to call for radical resistance.
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