. henryfarrell@mastodon.social wrote a great essay, outlining a political economy of #generativeAI.
My thinking aligns with his in a lot of ways, and I especially like:
✦ how he takes the "Shoggoth" metaphor, often used to incite moral panic about AGI, and shows that corporations are the real Shoggoths that we should be worried about
✦ how he deploys the "map and territory" metaphor to describe political stakes related to genAI - the struggle is for control of technologies, with the help of which there are increasing attempts to replace maps for real territories
✦ how he notes a reconfiguration of political positions of activists and organizations like Open Future Foundation - and signals the need for a new advocacy agenda based on a good understanding of emergent ways of creating synthetic knowledge and culture, and focused on supporting and protecting human knowledge.
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