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The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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The Agenics and the Importance of Data-Centered Models

"There's a really long history of the agenics, of this obsession with productivity," he says. "They believe there are some groups of people that are lesser than other people and that they're better than them." The data-centered models can be given to oil companies, militaries, states and governments, writes O'Neill. 'We can give them to places that are trying to brutalize, terrorize, surveil, and attract from more of the world,' he adds.

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