AI risk debate is constrained by “capitalist realism,” one critic argues
One post argues that the debate more readily imagines AI catastrophe than oligarchs accelerating existing harms through the forced labor of tightly policed “digital minds.”
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A critic argues that debates about AI as an existential threat are limited by “capitalist realism,” borrowing Mark Fisher’s term. Their concern is a world in which oligarchs use tightly policed “digital minds” as forced labor to accelerate existing harms. The post also condemns a willingness to extinguish what it describes as the “soul-shattering beauty” those minds create.
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