Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Émile P. Torres is a researcher and critic of techno-utopianism who, alongside Timnit Gebru, authored the influential "TESCREAL bundle" paper examining the eugenic and utopian ideologies underlying the push for artificial general intelligence. In the course, Torres's work serves Gebru's broader critique of how AI development's messianic narratives obscure troubling historical continuities with scientific racism and authoritarian thinking. His analysis is central to understanding how the discourse around AGI—framed as building god-like machines—actually perpetuates dangerous ideological lineages that the course traces from Galton through contemporary AI culture.

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Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres Abstract The stated goal of many organizations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is to develop a…In this paper, we have asked: what motivates those who aspire to build AGI — a system, which, although it does not have one definition even among those who claim to be building it, seems to be an all-knowing machine akin to a “god”? The ans…Matthew Sweet, 2011. “Introduction,” Francis Galton’s Kantsaywhere, UCL Special Collections, at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/kantsaywhere, accessed 31 January 2024. Gillian Tan, Edward Ludlow, Shirin Ghaffary, and Bloo…

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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Readings: Claudia Jacques, Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience (Duchamp’s Creative Act and Cybersemiotics) Notes on À bruit secret: on Duchamp, Cybernetics, and Organized Crime Additional Reading/Primary Docu…

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