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Denise Utochkin
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I'd like to put capitalism behind us. Let's join forces 💚 Trolley-problem abolitionist, "pleasure without an identity card", sometimes a postdoc. They/them btw. abolish-ai.net patreon.com/c/postcapitalism
![6.1 Women hold up half the Skynet
By paraphrasing Mao Zedong — who intended “the govern-
ment to raise women’s status [by] abolish[ing] the feudal sys-
tem which holds women in bondage [as well as] mobiliz[ing]
women to participate in the labor force” (Li 2000, p. 31) —
and making reference to the Terminator media franchise’s su-
perintelligent AI antagonist, we want to underline that women
have contributed both to their own emancipation and to their
own disenfranchisement by participating in (all three overlap-
ping definitions of) AI (given in the Introduction).14 This may
seem, at first blush, to be a negative perspective wherein we
are not able to imagine ourselves out of repeating the leitmo-
tif this paper is focused on, forever iterating over attempts to
free ourselves from capitalist patriarchy but never escaping the
infinitely nested loops within which the current technopolitical
landscape encircles us. That is to say, women are recursively
being called upon, and calling on themselves, to carve out and
carry out intellectually demanding roles, such as human com-
puter and programmer only to be automated away, masculinised
out, forgotten about, or all the above. But this is not the only
way forward, we propose we can halt this problem](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreieuqp2yyfemo3e5ohf5eoscw5vbito2swwqvoh5tlqys4hivu6q6e)
