Nationwide protests against data centers [15] and even demands to stop the AI race [16] constitute a significant glimmer of hope as Artificial Intelligence colonizes every sphere of human existence with terrifying rapidity. The movement, however, faces potential pitfalls that could be fatal. The emergence [17] of stochastic attacks [18] on the AI bosses represents counter-productive [19] adventurism seemingly informed by an ugly primitivism [20]. An equal but opposite threat is exploitation [21] of the movement by elements that really have no critique of the technology at all, but only seek to see it advance under Chinese rather than American techno-oligarchs—specifically the cultish [22] and reactionary [23] "Party for Socialism & Liberation" (sic). PSL is indeed [36] an instrument through which the rulers of China (and Russia) are attempting [24] to groom [25] oppositional forces in the US. This provides convenient fodder [26] for propaganda that would portray [27] any opposition to the AI economy as a tool of Beijing's ambitions [28] to global dominance [29] of the industry. As struggles against data centers now emerge in places like the Philippines [30], it is critical that we take a Neither East Nor West [31] position and repudiate the global divide-and-rule racket that is the essence of the state system [32]. In Episode 338 [33] of the CounterVortex [34] podcast, Bill Weinberg continues to make the case for an uncompromising abolitionist [15] position on Artificial Intelligence.
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