super normal behavior ✍🏻 by super normal company ✍🏻

(2) Even if benefits *were* dispersed in a more widespread, egalitarian way, that wouldn’t make the severe labor exploitation in and through this sector ok—nor would it equate to meaningful democratic control over AI’s future direction.

Key takeaways from those talks so far: (1) Silicon Valley oligarchs keep promising everyone that in the AI golden age everyone will benefit from accelerates deployment bc we’ll all work less & on more interesting things. That hasn’t happened. Benefits continue to be highly concentrated.

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.

So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Unsurprisingly, I’m not a fan of completely unenforceable and voluntary self-regulation by Big Tech oligarchs. I also think the proliferation of antidemocratic ideology & unchecked Big Tech market concentration & money in politics remain key threats that realistic policy responses must stay clear on

Ah, are recent public statements of tech oligarchs & their hearts of gold perhaps driven by goals that are… not linked solely to selflessly, singlehandedly saving humanity? At least no media outlets fell for it by slipping into a full blown 2 week panic/fawn response to very earnest tech bros, phew