Hi everyone.

Last week we read chapter 3 of Resisting AI ("AI Violence"). This week we'll read chapter 4, "Necropolitics".

We're just a few weeks away from finishing the book, but you can still order Resisting AI, but we're about a month away from starting our next book (Why We Fear AI), so consider ordering that instead (or at least as well) and get ready to start the next book.

Alternatively, you could buy the next few books (see below for a roadmap) to order a few other books. Also, a discount code for one of our next books

This week I'm reading:

• Resisting AI, Chapter 4: "Necropolitics"
• "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence" by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

(you can access the TESCREAL bundle paper directly as either html or as a pdf here)

If you want a look at what my schedule, that's at the end of this email.

routine stuff

If you've read these emails before, this is mostly the same stuff as last week (except for the discount code at the end). You can probably skip it if you're caught up.

format

As a reminder, there are numerous ways to keep up with the reading group:

• newsletter: I send updates on Mondays and Thursdays. In the Monday updates, I'll point to what to read; in the Thursday updates, I'll send an icebreaker question to think about, and a reminder of where & how to join the video chat later that day.
• video chats: Thursdays at 8pm ET we have a video chat on jitsi¹ where we talk about that week's readings. Sometimes we'll have a guest to talk about something related to what we read that week.
• group chat: if you want to chat with people on signal, we have a pretty active group chat. You can join the signal group chat here.

schedule

This should be a reasonably accurate roadmap of what we did (or will) read:

next books

Our next book will be Why We Fear AI by Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer. We're on pace to start that book in 1 month, so please place an order for it soon

After that, we'll read Disabling Intelligences by Rua Williams. If you go to the link to order the book, I've been advised that the discount code PALAUT will give you a 20% discount on the book.

We'll start Why We Fear AI in March (and, tentatively, that means we'll start Disabling Intelligences in mid-April), so make plans to order those books accordingly.

closing thoughts

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, etc... please feel free to reach out. Talk soon.

Also, if you come across something you think we'd like to read, I'd love to hear about it; contact me.

Okay, that's it; see you Thursday to discuss the chapter and other reading.