A.I. is here—except it isn't. Or is it?

A.I. is all over the news all of the time, and nations are scrambling to win the race and become the world leaders in this technology which we're told will change the world. This belief, this myth, is driving policy, investment, hype and conferences. It's the myth that is making A.I., a technology which has consistenly been overpromised and failed to deliver.

Yet, nobody is asking if we want the changes we're told A.I. will deliver. The assumption is the future will be artificially intelligent. This means that other critical problems are falling off the agenda which is now dominated by the race towards a hypertechnological future—no matter the costs. Researcher Paul Schütze joins me to explore how these myths are making A.I. into a reality, with no consideration as to whether or not we want that reality. He explains the cost to the environment, social cohesion, and even our imagination.

Paul's work: https://paulschuetze.de/
The impacts of AI futurism: an unfiltered look at AI's true effects on the climate crisis: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783488858...

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