Nationwide protests against data centers [13] and even demands to stop the AI race [14] 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 [15] of stochastic attacks [16] on the AI bosses represents counter-productive [17] adventurism seemingly informed by an ugly primitivism [18]. An equal but opposite threat is exploitation [19] 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 [20] and reactionary [21] "Party for Socialism & Liberation" (sic). PSL is indeed an instrument through which the rulers of China (and Russia) are seeking [22] to groom [23] oppositional forces in the US. This provides convenient fodder [24] for propganda that seeks to portray [25] any opposition to the AI economy as a tool of Beijing's ambitions [26] to global dominance [27] of the industry. As struggles against data centers now emerge in places like the Philippines [28], it is critical that we take a Neither East Nor West [29] position that repudiates the global divide-and-rule racket that is the essence of the state system [30]. In Episode 338 of the CounterVortex [31] podcast, Bill Weinberg continues to make the case for an uncompromising abolitionist [13] position on Artificial Intelligence.
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