Asma Mhalla

"Total technology is the idea that technology carries a political and ideological project through its will to power and limitless control. It’s impossible to grasp the ramifications of this from one single angle"

"This binary choice is self-manipulation! For years, we’ve been formulating the problem in exactly the same way on matters of technological surveillance"

"It’s too easy to treat these people like eccentrics. When we can’t take something seriously, it tends to swallow us up! Elon Musk is nothing of a clown, no matter what some people say: through the highly strategic companies he manages, he de facto occupies a geopolitical position. We have to accept the reality"

"Both Musk and Sam Altman have a rare relationship with risk: they’re always taking gambles’"

"The difference is that all of a sudden, since it’s private, cost is reduced and a horizon of profitability appears. And privatisation means that what is therapeutic or for leisure today can become a weapon of war tomorrow"