Resisting AI, week 6
Hello there.
This week, we're going to read the following pieces:
- Resisting AI, Chapter 5: "Post-Machine Learning"
- "Even When You Are a Solution You Are a Problem: An Uncomfortable Reflection on Feminist Data Ethics"
You can still order Resisting AI, but we're close to starting our next book (Why We Fear AI), so consider ordering that instead so you're ready when we start reading Why We Fear AI (approximately March 9).
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:
| Readings | Week of... |
|---|---|
| Introduction & "Against AI" | Jan 12 |
| Operations of AI & "Introducing beginners" | Jan 19 |
| Collateral Damage & "Against AI" | Jan 26 |
| AI Violence & "To Live In Their Utopia" | Feb 2 |
| Necropolitics & "The TESCREAL bundle" | Feb 9 |
| Post-machine Learning & "Even When You Are a Solution You Are a Problem" | Feb 16 |
| People's Councils | Feb 23 |
| Anti-facist AI | Mar 2 |
| ... | |
| Why We Fear AI | Mar 9 |
| ... | |
| Disabling Intelligences | Apr 20 |
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 a few weeks, so order it ASAP if you haven't already.
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.
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