"Freedom dreaming, radical imagination, simply playing, are serious business[...] Today, one way to understand the steady uptake of AI and warfare is it upticks the gamification[...]"
-Dr. Ruha Benjamin

#WeaponizedIntelligence

"The notion of intelligence is deeply rooted in the eugenic imagination[...] Eugenics was a philosophy and a movement popularized by progressives[...] It's more important than ever for us to sharpen our critical and creative antenna."
- Dr. Ruha Benjamin

#WeaponizedIntelligence

We are now hearing from Dr. Ruha Benjamin who is doing incredibly important work on technology, connecting it with social and political systems.

"AI [is] not simply bad[...], but deadly, discriminatory, and devouring the planet."

#WeaponizedIntelligence

Communities of color are absolutely used as testing grounds for this kind of technology. People of color are seen as disposable by the people testing and the governments and police forces choosing to allow that testing.

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