Curious Magpie<p>From Annalee Newitz:</p><p>"... You know what I say? Fuck those questions. They are near-replicas of the kinds of questions that white people asked about Black people during Jim Crow, that men asked about women during the suffrage movement, and that the U.S. government is asking about immigrants today. They’re a reflection of the contradictory desires held by an ownership class that wants to control laborers violently, but also to receive their care and attention endlessly.</p><p>If you’re about to birth a new form of personhood, as a lot of AI developers say they are, those are the worst possible questions to start with ..."<br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robots</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a><br><a href="https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/robots-are-obsessed-with-1990s-web-aesthetics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.com/thehypothesis/a</span><span class="invisible">rchive/robots-are-obsessed-with-1990s-web-aesthetics/</span></a></p>