Artificial Intelligence.
(The word being changed is the wrong one; it _is_ artificial; it is _not_ intelligence, as I wrote last year:
perfectknowledgedb.com/essays/AI_Is... )
Hold the line, everyone.
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AI Is A But Not I
Radical Complexity (John T. Murphy)
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PhD, MA Ed. Former researcher at Argonne National Lab, University of Chicago, and Northern Illinois University. Archaeology, Anthropology, and Computation. Finding complexity in the past to build a better future.
![A block of text: Written off for its title online, “Drone Disorientations” would make a fascinating teaching object. Of course, the capacity to do that kind of interdisciplinary work in the classroom is rapidly dwindling. Harvard University just laid off its Writing Program Director along with dozens of other staff in a “restructuring” that many speculate is motivated by the school’s embrace of AI models. [HIGHLIGHTED] We’re occupying a strange political moment in which humanities work is both massively undervalued and everywhere extracted as a valuable resource.[END HIGHLIGHTING] Recently, the AI company Anthropic settled a $1.5 billion lawsuit involving over 300,000 plaintiffs for stealing archives of 7 million digitized books without compensation. During the proceedings, internal documents emerged revealing what the company called “Project Panama,” “our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” not just digital ones.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bhdtze4va3kstsess45x4obb/bafkreidw5zbvgzbp6oq3y6djxqwluz3zrw3wld5pfnnqxbtcetn5h76tqu)
