"Tempting as it might be to look at the continent-spanning logistics of a corporation like Walmart and imagine it reordered for social benefit (Rozworski and Philips, 2019], or to wish for accelerated automation across healthcare and manufacturing that delivers luxury for society as a whole (Bastani, 2020), everything we've looked at in terms of the coupling of technical and social orders tells us this won't pan out as we may hope."
(1/2)
"Existing systems, and AI perhaps most of all, are not simply tools that can be turned to good ends or bad but technosocial infrastructures with an established momentum. A new apparatus will bear as much resemblance to existing AI as the eco-social innovations of the Lucas Plan did to the tanks and planes produced by Lucas Aerospace."
McQuillan, Resisting AI, Ch 7: Anti-Fascist AI
(2/2)
"The framing of a new apparatus accepts that the diversity, variety, and complexity of experience overflows representation and is therefore immune to representation."
McQuillan, Resisting AI, Ch 7: Anti-Fascist AI
I strongly recommend Resisting AI, particularly to any radical leftist working in the IT industry.