Séminaire CIA : D. McMillan

Dan McMillan, Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing à Goldsmiths, University of London est invité dans le cadre du séminaire Critique de l'Intelligence Artificielle.

Resisting AI: from reemergent eugenics to prefigurative technopolitics

There is an urgent need to resist AI on the basis that it is a violent and necropolitical technology, and make proposals for how this could be done. In doing so, this talk will draw on arguments from Dan McQuillan’s recently published book ‘Resisting AI’ and his ongoing critique of large language models. The talk will cover the role of science in legitimising algorithmic violence or the ways in which feminist and decolonial critiques of science not only provide a critique of AI but point to forms of viable alternative apparatuses. It will also provides a particular perspective on the currently ineffective attempts at AI regulation and on the forms of socially situated and mobilised knowledges which might actually constrain it. Finally, it will advance a program for positive alternatives to AI under the heading of ‘prefigurative technopolitics’ and address matters of tactics by drawing from the historical technopolitics of the Luddites and the contemporary movements against data centres.

Dan McLillan est l'auteur de l'essai : Resisting AI, An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Bristol University Press, 2022.