Trump's executive order [16] purporting to establish a regulation regime for artificial intelligence actually serves the aim of a government partnership with the AI industry to advance the police state. Ironically, it is the AI company Anthropic [17] that is calling for a moratorium [18] on development of the technology until its threats are assessed. Pope Leo XIV's encyclical [19], "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence [20]," raises critical points but still echoes the illusion that this technology, now threatening to develop its own powers of "recursive self-improvement [21]," can be effectively regulated [22]. There are encouraging signs of worker pushback [23] against replacement by AI, and an emerging anarchist critique [24] of the technology. Of course the Trump regime is targeting critics for repression [25] as "anti-tech extremists." In Episode 331 of the CounterVortex podcast [26], Bill Weinberg again calls for total abolition [27] of AI, citing unacceptable threats to humanity on ecological [28], epistemological [29] and eschatological [30] grounds.
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