interview
by ALEPH MOLINARI
artworks by HARMONY KORINE
The Political theorist and writer uncovers the dangers of AI: the insidious neoliberalist ideology fueling Silicon Valley’s delusional promise to solve ALL of humanity’s problems, while perpetuating voracious and destructive capitalism.
ALEPH MOLINARI — This issue of Purple is about how we can redirect the revolutions that are happening now — in technology, gender, psychedelics — toward a better world. Artificial intelligence is one of these revolutions that has exploded over the past year, and everybody’s using it in a very casual way. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define AI?
EVGENY MOROZOV — We inherited this clunky term from the Cold War. The concept emerged in the mid-1950s in the military milieu, in the context of automating cognitive tasks related to…