A keynote for the QMU Inter/sections Symposium
Machine learning is a very political form of computation. This talk will look at the way it is flowing in to all areas of life under the smokescreen of AI.
Unconstrained machine learning acts like a form of dark matter, rendering all media as part of a statistical Stasi. The talk will try to illuminate the mathematical and material operations of machine learning and the way it modifies policing, social services and the human interactions that constitute our social fabric.
What is at stake is the large-scale slippage of a 'drone perspective' in to so-called smart systems and the production of states of exception. This talk will ask how we can go beyond raising awareness about political & ethical implications and instead generate active responses, from prototyping more convivial assemblages to establishing people's councils for ethical machine learning.
