The Dangers of Mystifying Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Abstract

From the outset, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been steeped in myth and magic, distracting us from the real threat of this technology. Promising miracles, Big Tech has amassed wealth and power by colonizing and privatizing the material world and restructuring labour. From the erosion of democracy, to data theft, to invasive surveillance, to the automation of bias, to tax- evasion, the world run by corporate-owned machines is proving to be anything but “magical.”