> the concept of AGI is inseparable from the kind of hierarchy of intelligence that has underpinned ideas of innate supremacy since the days of empire and colonialism<p>Is this bullshit?<p>> referring to AI's alleged potential for good should be dropped by acknowledging that the social benefits are still speculative while the harms have been empirically demonstrated<p>The empirical harms are mean tweets. But advancing medicine, law, productivity, etc are alleged.<p>> It's not so long ago that we all woke up to the identity of truly essential workers; the people carrying out the precaritised roles of nursing, teaching, caring, delivering and cleaning, the very professions who are being forced to reinvent the idea of the general strike simply to regain the conditions for survival. Instead of being complicit with expensive toys running in carbon emitting data centres, we can focus instead on centring activities of care<p>But care workers are going to be replaced by androids. Calling someone essential is virtue signalling, it says nothing about the person or job. Working in a hospice changing diapers of the demented isn't meaningful work.