It is noteworthy that negative eugenics was embraced by not just German fascists but progressives and liberals elsewhere in Europe and North America [16]. As Bashford and Levine (2010) observe, “the optimism of eugenics, and its aspiration …Henry Shevlin, Karina Vold, Matthew Crosby, and Marta Halina, 2019. “The limits of machine intelligence: Despite progress in machine intelligence, artificial general intelligence is still a major challenge,” EMBO Reports, volume 20, number …
Alexandra Minna Stern
historian · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Alexandra Minna Stern is a historian of eugenics and biopolitics who appears in the course readings through scholarly work examining how eugenic thinking spread across political ideologies in early twentieth-century Europe and North America, complicating narratives that isolate such pseudoscience to fascism alone. Her work enables the seminar to trace how ostensibly "scientific" frameworks for human optimization—rooted in eugenics—establish historical precedent for contemporary debates about AI optimization, algorithmic sorting of populations, and the assumed neutrality of technical systems that encode normative values. This genealogy is essential for understanding how "Pandaemonium" (chaos masked as order) has operated through both biological and computational rationalities.
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