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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
dingemansemark@scholar.social ("Mark Dingemanse") wrote:

@grvsmth @jonny just to note that in the revised version I've expanded a bit on this, building on work by Damien P. Williams https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452871

> There always will be a place for enchantment and mystery. ... But magic appropriated by extractive capitalism and administered as the final technosolution is a different beast altogether.

This is why a truly critical AI literacy must peel back the layers of human sense-making and investigate its interactional foundations. When we do so, we must walk a fine line. We must be prepared to deal with disenchantment without falling into the trap that casts all magic as naïve or obsolete. There always will be a place for enchantment and mystery. Divination and other generative uses of chance have served us as technologies of decisionmaking and sources of entertainment from timeeimmemorial. But magic appropriated by extractive capitalism and administered as the final technosolution is a different beast altogether. As Dami en Williams has noted, “the present magic of “AI” is performed on us without our input, without our knowledge, and without our consent. There’s another word for that kind of magic; binding, subjugating magic performed on you against your will is called a curse.” (Williams 2023:108). One of the goals of critical AI literacies is to give people the tools to lift that curse.