I like the idea of a public AI utility, but also it makes me think about how my city-sponsored wifi was recently sold to a private company. Or the several times Minnesota public data has been hacked. Even with a welcoming policy environment, maintaining public comms projects in an era of whiplash shifts is a huge long-term challenge.
"in a world where at least one prominent social network was obligated by its very nature to adhere to First Amendment principles, or how debates about privacy and surveillance might unfold when the data and activity of users of one large social network were explicitly protected by the Fourth Amendment."
Really interesting as always. Two things come to mind.
1) "Empire AI" is an interesting choice of name! I would like to believe is stands in the post-marxist / autonomist lane, which ultimately talks a lot about the things you also bring up (e.g. Negri and Hardt's Empire, Dyer-Witherford's forays into AI, etc). But in all likelihood, it's probably just a happy accident.
2) There is a thread that I think is important to surface for these infrastructures or tools to be closer to humans' experience, and it has to do with Indigeneity. There are many examples of Indigenous people's on Turtle Island re-claiming technology in a constructive, organic, and radically democratc way, and I think that those should serve of living examples of the power of imagination when it combines with technology and Indigenous law. For instance, see Indigenous Protocol and AI project (https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper). I think that this sort of sensibility has broader and deeper appeal (and possibly, impact) than principles derived from the US constitution.
I like the idea of a public AI utility, but also it makes me think about how my city-sponsored wifi was recently sold to a private company. Or the several times Minnesota public data has been hacked. Even with a welcoming policy environment, maintaining public comms projects in an era of whiplash shifts is a huge long-term challenge.
Very cool read Max. I often click away feeling a little more hopeful..
"in a world where at least one prominent social network was obligated by its very nature to adhere to First Amendment principles, or how debates about privacy and surveillance might unfold when the data and activity of users of one large social network were explicitly protected by the Fourth Amendment."
Please read:
https://world.hey.com/corlin/a-seven-year-experiment-in-not-sucking-e22b2ae4
Really interesting as always. Two things come to mind.
1) "Empire AI" is an interesting choice of name! I would like to believe is stands in the post-marxist / autonomist lane, which ultimately talks a lot about the things you also bring up (e.g. Negri and Hardt's Empire, Dyer-Witherford's forays into AI, etc). But in all likelihood, it's probably just a happy accident.
2) There is a thread that I think is important to surface for these infrastructures or tools to be closer to humans' experience, and it has to do with Indigeneity. There are many examples of Indigenous people's on Turtle Island re-claiming technology in a constructive, organic, and radically democratc way, and I think that those should serve of living examples of the power of imagination when it combines with technology and Indigenous law. For instance, see Indigenous Protocol and AI project (https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper). I think that this sort of sensibility has broader and deeper appeal (and possibly, impact) than principles derived from the US constitution.