"“To suggest that we democratize Al to reduce asymmetries of power is a little like arguing for democratizing weapons …"

"“It is a common practice of life to focus on the world immediately before us, the one we see and smell and touch ever…"

"Controlling time — whether via the clocks for churches, trains or data centers — has always been a function of contro…"

"In one case, Amazon negotiated a memorandum of understanding with a police department in Florida, discovered through …"

"It’s that the NIST databases foreshadow the emergence of a logic that has now thoroughly pervaded the tech sector: th…"

"What epistemological violence is necessary to make the world readable to a machine learning system? AI seeks to syste…"

"Over and over, we see the ideology of Cartesian dualism in AI: the fantasy that Al systems are disembodied brains tha…"

"Ultimately, 'data' has become a bloodless word; it disguises both its material origins and its ends. And if data is s…"

"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fr…"