2023/05/25

AI Researcher Meredith Whittaker Connects the Dots Between Computation and the Plantation

● 25/05/2023
“The goals his work sets out to achieve assume profits for emerging capitalists are an unalloyed good, while anything that would interrupt these is an obstacle to be eliminated.”
– AI researcher Meredith Whittaker, on the ideology and motivations of computer pioneer Charles Babbage. A critical intervention into his legacy, Whittaker draws connections between Babbage’s machines, his perspective on ‘free’ labour, and the brutal efficiency of colonial plantations.
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