This Machine Kills Episode 281- The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)
This Machine Kills Episode 281- The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)
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We are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire stack for these systems.
••• Follow Meredith: https://twitter.com/mer__edith
••• Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control | Meredith Whittaker https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
••• Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI | David Gray Widder, Meredith Whittaker, Sarah Myers West https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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