Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Timnit Gebru is a critical AI researcher known for exposing how machine learning systems encode historical biases and perpetuate social harms through their training data and deployment contexts. In the course readings, she appears alongside Émile P. Torres in "The TESCREAL bundle," which critiques the utopian narratives surrounding artificial general intelligence as a cover for eugenic ideologies and techno-solutionism. Her work grounds the seminar's interrogation of how AI discourse obscures the political and ethical entanglements between algorithmic systems and existing power structures.

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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…Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of organizations aiming to build AGI and asserting that their products are close to achieving it (Bubeck, et al., 2023; Cuthbertson, 2022). While a number of researchers have debated whether…The AGI race fueled by the TESCREAList goal to build “transhuman minds” (Goertzel, 2010) and bring about “unlimited intelligence” has also resulted in systems that consume more and more resources in terms of data and compute power. This lea…

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Dan McQuillan

from Resisting AI, an Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence

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Of all the entanglements between AI and society, perhaps the easiest to grasp is its dependency on data and the way that it might pick up unwanted patterns. There are many ways in which the training data can distort the outcomes of a machin…

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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