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remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin
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![An except from the above paper with the following text in which I've highlighted the first and last paragraphs:
As we’ve outlined in §2, a large body of scholarship has engaged with these discourses as collections of mistaken or absurd claims, to be debunked, corrected, or ridiculed with better scientific techniques, deeper engagements with social scientific theory, and more measured accounts of how the technology really operates. Such strategies can serve as useful ground-clearing for broader efforts, but are limited in their ability to check the power of the AI industry, because they risk drawing attention away from the ideological work these discourses do [29].
In the context of AI capabilities discourses, claims about what AI can do carve social life into discrete skills, capabilities, and use cases, and rerender these things in terms of AI. If the point is to contest the broader systems of exploitation that the project of AI is woven into, then simply offering better assessments of the ability of an AI model to do productive cognitive work leaves intact the reifying logics that continue to alienate people while organizing capital.
Critical scholarship on AI should therefore aim to interrupt the ideological work performed by these claims, dismantling the grounds on which they are sayable rather than simply interrogating their truth value.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6nbmyxbzaccjk456zdwzb26a/bafkreibgm75n65tlvlwfginosq4sydqwvzjn6cizolsltfuldrto7rac4q)
