Director Valerie Veatch on challenging AI hype and building a culture of technological refusal
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Sebastian Klovig Skelton
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Summary
An interview with director Valerie Veatch about her documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence. The article explores how both AI boosters and doomers propagate hype narratives that anthropomorphize the technology and frame its development as inevitable. Veatch discusses the challenges of countering these narratives and emphasizes the need to build a culture of technological refusal, encouraging critical thinking about AI's actual capabilities and societal impact.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledWe couldn't possibly stop it, even if we wanted - get out of the way or be crushed by the wheels of progress.
Both narratives imbue the technology with an anthropomorphised sense of power and agency, and paint its development as an ontological inevitability.
The pressing need to build a culture of technological refusal.
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