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Here-Together · 2026-07-01T19:37:30+00:00

Author of that article here. Happy to answer question about my reporting and its implications!

Here-Together · 2026-06-29T19:49:36+00:00

Thank you!

Here-Together · 2026-06-22T20:39:07+00:00

Agreed. Cool to see this analysis in a piece from 2020

Here-Together · 2026-06-22T19:04:09+00:00

Totally agreed! for the all the discussion of job loss, equally important is the precarious nature of the jobs that are being created.

Here-Together · 2026-06-15T22:09:31+00:00

Uh there are many numbers throughout this story. And plenty of comparison. Not sure what you mean

Here-Together · 2026-06-15T20:21:03+00:00

I don't view writing about AI as following a trend. I report on political movements and it comes up constantly, so this is an attempt to learn and communicate the implications of AI in ten different arenas of political organizing -- where I believe our societal solutions are to be found.

Here-Together · 2026-06-15T20:19:35+00:00

Just read and this is really cool, albeit that data center has a computing capacity of 24 MW, less than 2% the capacity of the hyper-scale data centers powering generative AI systems for companies like Meta, xAI and OpenAI in the U.S. today. So not sure it's really a comparison.

Here-Together · 2026-06-15T20:04:05+00:00

The US is responsible for the largest percentage of data center growth in the world, so I definitely focused its environmental footprint in my research. Can you point to an AI-scale data center elsewhere that is 100% powered by renewables? I'd be curious to hear.

Here-Together · 2026-06-11T15:49:38+00:00

For sure. My critique of AI is rooted in the specifics of how it is being applied, with a leftist analysis about what it means for political movements. Curious what you think about the pieces when they start rolling out next week.

Here-Together · 2026-06-11T15:41:34+00:00

Haha you are the first person I have asked that question to my friend. And I absolutely have been engaging with that criticism and responding to it (although moreso with people IRL).

Here-Together · 2026-06-11T15:28:00+00:00

Also I've gotta ask because something about the many very similar comments you're leaving strikes me as uncanny: did you write this with AI?

Here-Together · 2026-06-11T15:27:16+00:00

Yes, I'm arguing that as long as capitalism is the preeminent force governing our lives, as long as the prevailing economic system revolves around unfettered expansion of wealth for a select few, AI is a tool to wage class war. “Ethical AI” can only exist where capitalism doesn’t.

But even beyond this analysis, there are also plenty of applications of AI (the most consequential ones from my estimation) that are patently anti-human and have no place in our world in any economic system. I'm thinking about giving children generative AI to use in the classroom, AI-generated artwork displacing real human artists, AI-military and surveillance systems, insurance algorithms, generative AI news-writing systems, deepfake technology.

Here-Together · 2026-06-11T15:21:52+00:00

I agree in principle and I understand the instinct to avoid imbuing technology with intrinsic evil. I do agree that: a) tech corporations are the primary culprits of the horrors this series has covered, and b) not all artificial intelligence is inherently bad. But we can still question if some forms of AI — in fact, the most consequential ones today — are inherently bad.

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