anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing in human geography on AI governance, political power, and privatization. I examine scale in public sector governance of AI, including chatbots.
she/her | Waterloo/Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
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Trustworthy safe responsible governance public good
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Was on the Sidewalk/Google website often protesting and would get a response about some "smart" innovation--to which I would respond stop offshoring and pay your taxes Google and cities can take care of public transportation etc. Schmidt on tax dodging: "It's called capitalism."
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Grateful for @biancawylie.com, Nasma Ahmed, and others who worked tirelessly to not let this happen. We reference some of their work in our essay: some-thoughts.org
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*The Prodigal Tech Women mention was inspired by @mariafarrell.bsky.social's evergreen The Prodigal Techbro.
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Too bad Thom Yorke decided to be the worst version of himself.
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Link to the excerpt: staff.kings.edu/sites/cristo...
Link to the full book, Discourse on Colonialism: files.libcom.org/files/zz_aim...
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Unlike the vagueness of Lucy Suchman's "thingness" of AI, "thingification" is specific, material. We should remember Cesaire's words when we talk about innovation, efficiency, and scaling up in the name of progress, in the name of AI.
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"I am talking about natural economies disrupted-harmonious & viable economies adapted to indigenous population—food crops destroyed, malnutrition permanently introduced, agricultural development oriented solely toward benefit of metropolitan countries, the looting of products, of raw materials."
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"They dazzle me with the tonnage of cotton or cocoa that has been exported, the acreage that has been planted with olive trees or grapevines."
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"I am talking about millions of men in whom fear has been cunningly instilled, who have been taught to have an inferiority complex, to tremble, kneel, despair, and behave like flunkeys."
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"I am talking about millions of men torn from their gods, their land, their habits, their life—from life, from the dance, from wisdom."
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"They throw facts at my head, statistics, mileages of roads, canals, and railroad tracks.
I am talking about thousands of men sacrificed to the Congo-Ocean.* I am talking about those who, as I write this, are digging the harbor of Abidjan by hand."
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"I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out."
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"I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about "achievements;" diseases cured, improved standards of living."
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As I attended session after session in the Grand Palais, built more than a century ago over the Palace of Industry, so much of Cesaire reverberated, especially his concept of "thingification":
"My turn to state an equation: colonization = "thingification."
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"To create its software, IntelCenter partnered with a facial recognition tech company named Morpho, later bought and renamed Idemia, which provided biometric services for clients including the FBI, Interpol and the Chinese government."
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"From there, [Bouverot] took the helm at Morpho (now IDEMIA), steering the French facial recognition and biometrics firm until its 2017 acquisition. She later co-founded the Fondation Abeona, a nonprofit that promotes “responsible AI.”"