Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss the global push by governments to rapidly adopt AI at all costs and how citizens can critically rethink our dependence on these technologies while imagining a collective future that benefits everyone. Dan McQuillan is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the author of <a href='https://bookshop.org/a/18331/9781529213508'>Resisting AI</a>. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on <a href='https://www.patreon.com/techwontsaveus'>Patreon</a>. The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Also mentioned in this episode:<ul><li>Dan recently gave a talk about <a href='https://danmcquillan.org/decomputing_as_resistance.html'>decomputing as resistance</a> and published the text on his website.</li><li>The UK Labour Government is going <a href='https://www.techpolicy.press/the-uks-ai-strategy-risks-entrenching-the-power-of-big-tech/'>all in on data centre development</a>, while planning for future <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/26/southern-water-considers-shipping-supplies-from-norwegian-fjords'>water shortages</a>.</li><li>Academic institutions are <a href='https://www.eweek.com/news/ai-education-cheating-chatgpt/'>rapidly adopting</a> AI technologies, <a href='https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-launch-national-academy-ai-instruction-microsoft-openai-anthropic-and-united'>with a little help from industry leaders</a>.</li><li>The GKN Factory Collective offers an <a href='https://www.fbu.org.uk/blog/fbu-supports-italian-gkn-workers-struggle-jobs-and-climate-justice'>inspiring example</a> of collective action.</li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus">Support the show</a>

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