#technosolutionism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #technosolutionism, aggregated by home.social.
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People really, REALLY need to develop a powerful critique of AI and its extremely serious consequences. I even know people in international solidarity NGOs who naively believe that AI can be “responsible”—yet another oxymoron of the capitalist system.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/27/john-oliver-ai-chatbots#ai #capitalism #technoSolutionism #humanobsolescence #chatbots #aichatbots
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AI turning US street cameras into a mass surveillance state. #artificialintelligence #CountercameraMovement #DeFlock #Flock #Technology #Technosolutionism #TheConversation #USSurveillanceCameras #USSurveillanceState
https://iwpost.com/ai-turning-us-street-cameras-into-a-mass-surveillance-state/?fsp_sid=6303 -
"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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"Acclaimed journalist and '#EmpireOfAI' author #KarenHao sat down with award-winning writer #NaomiKlein for a conversation on the precarious #AI moment we find ourselves in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B__Efqacc
#artificialIntelligence #AGI #SamAltman #tech #BigTech #OpenAI #SiliconValley #surveillance #techFutures #technosolutionism #techWorkers #labour #books @bookstodon
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“The part that I agree with most is its strong objection to #technosolutionism, to the kind of fantasy that if we just had the right #algorithm, #cancer would be magically and immediately solved.” #AI open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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Folks, our very own @gerrymcgovern has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/
“99th Day is essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet. Prepare to be disturbed, enlightened and inspired.” – Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times
And, if you’re in Ireland, Gerry has a book tour in February. If I’m in the country, I’ll be at the Dublin event on the 9th. Hope to see some of you there :)
https://gerrymcgovern.com/tour/
💕
#99thDay #books #environment #climateChange #capitalism #technology #BigTech #technoSolutionism #fascism #ireland
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*Not to get all cyberpunk here, but the digital networks WERE the "alternative networks" *Buying a shiny new Mac because you "think different," that "averts 1984" till around maybe 2026. #technosolutionism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lbfxrdtx3smhrnmh6xprfutu/post/3md53vqgyas2m -
"Intelligence is really the thing that we should have more of", he says. Indeed. But what kind of intelligence? What is the point of obsessive #technosolutionism on the face of dire absence of social intelligence, the source of almost all of society's problems? www.ft.com/content/e3c4...
Computer scientist Yann LeCun:... -
I wake up to more emails advertising university jobs, but not lecturers (or senior lecturers). No, these grade 6/7 salaries are for 'study advisors' or god forbid 'success partners'. As if Capita replaced Faculty, unis can now can look forward to being success managed, student to staff to redundancy. And its all decided with the big data imaginary.
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„Technosolutionism means we’re often manufacturing band-aids out of the blood of our wounds, rather than confronting what’s wounding us.“ #TechnoSolutionism
https://vsanchezgomez.substack.com/p/technosolutionism-part1
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“Whenever a company or public office faces a new challenge, the first question must be: How can #AI help?” @EUCommission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the Italian Tech Week in Turin.
What a dumb piece of advice.
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And in today's installment of #Technosolutionism #AI #AIHype #Ethics #Philosophy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglzrklp8jyo
Could someone PLEASE explain to the minister that the law and regulation has sharp, age-related boundaries for various things not because people suddenly become responsible or less vulnerable on their 18th birthday but because the law needs to appeal to something verifiable rather than the ethically significant but fuzzily-boundaried concepts like 'adult' and 'child'. (1/2)
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Book review: Technocolonialism by Mirca Madianou
Mirca Madianou’s Technocolonialism shows how six logics of digital humanitarianism – humanitarian accountability, audit, capitalism, technosolutionism, securitization and resistance – together combine to reproduce colonial practices of extraction, paternalisation, marginalisation and disempowerment through digital solutions.
Using examples from fieldwork in multiple geographies, Madianou first provides a brief history lesson on the logics of colonialism, demonstrating its far-reaching […]
https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2025/06/25/book-review-technocolonialism-by-mirca-madianou/
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"We have felt it necessary to dwell so long on an analysis of technology here because we have found that technological optimism is the most common and the most dangerous reaction to our findings from the world model. [...] Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effective action to solve it."
(Meadows et al. 1972)
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Whatever happened to all the #blockchain projects? Not the outright cryptoswindle type but all these ambitious and noble ideas to generate trust and accountability in #supplychain etc.
Maybe if people spent some time doing hype postmortems, the next hype wave would be less embarrassing? Building a sort of immunity against naive #technosolutionism
The cumulating decades of wasted tech potential may become something we'll deeply regret as the real problems we are facing keep pilling up.
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A major reason why #technosolutionism is a caricature and not part of an actual solution toolkit is that many strands of technology are abstracted away to serve the same old social purposes. It does not matter if its a mace, a sword, a gun, a jet or a flying saucer if the objective is always the same.
But "social tech", from taboos to religions, politics, laws and financial systems are immensely powerful as they change objectives: the same physical reality organized in different ways.
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"In this special episode of ‘Unshocked,’ #NaomiKlein is joined by #tech analyst, journalist, and author, @parismarx to break down the dangers behind #SiliconValley’s push for an #AI-centered world, including for the environment, education, and democracy."
https://youtu.be/adHOG1nJ8js?list=PLhHpnycGpC8S_A87y6MjfrzKzkWoNPAjO
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"Mr. #Musk’s grandfather was also a flamboyant leader of the political movement known as #technocracy.
"Leading #technocrats proposed replacing democratically elected officials and civil servants — indeed, all of government — with an army of scientists and engineers under what they called a #technate. Some also wanted to annex Canada and Mexico."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/elon-musk-doge-technocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.DkY0.xuUNqvaLaS8R&smid=url-share
#USpol #technosolutionism #oligarchy #TechBros #techOligarchs #FarRight #SiliconValleyRight #ElonMusk #JoshuaHaldeman -
Right now I am not arguing against #AI as a corporate tool, as an unsustainable, power-hungry privacy nightmare.
There are ways to train it locally and host on more sustainable infrastructure.
I am arguing against the very basic #technosolutionism of AI, which is the anti-thesis of #solarpunk :
Trying to solve each problem with an app which you do NOT understand, which you do NOT analyze, which can lead to terrible consequences down the road.
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@canadaduane #solarpunk is about understanding the human context of a problem before attempting a technical solution for it.
#vibeCoding is the exact opposite of that, throwing mindless #AI copy-pasta at a prompt until something executable is made.
We need to get away from #technoSolutionism , not make it easier to drown in it!
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#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Sarah T. Roberts
topics
⦁"the hidden humans behind #ArtificialIntelligence" & #AI's dependence on hyperexploited outsourced #labour
⦁#DOGE, "an emblem of how #SiliconValley executives have embraced a brand of #tech rapture that disdains and destroys democracy and attacks the idea that people can take care of each other"https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16761835-the-hidden-humans-behind-artificial-intelligence-and-the-sociopathology-of-elon-musk-a-conversation-with-sarah-t-roberts
#BigTech #techWorkers #Musk #cyberlibertarianism #technosolutionism #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags -
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non je voyais cette prise de conscience dans au moins deux ans. Mais...à cause de la bêtise de Google et autres Micro$oft qui veulent **imposer** leur IA hors de prix à leurs utilisateurs la prise de conscience est.. beaucoup plus rapide !
mais sont-ils bêtes... 🤦♂️ -
Is the film Twister the quintessential techno-solutionism story?
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Coda:
Dan McQuillan, a lecturer at Goldsmiths University, doesn't mince words when describing the implications of all this;
"'AI' has a tendency towards fascistic solutionism."
https://techwontsave.us/episode/247_data_vampires_fighting_for_control_episode_4
#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #fascism #technocracy #TechnoSolutionism
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Coda:
Dan McQuillan, a lecturer at Goldsmiths University, doesn't mince words when describing the implications of all this;
"'AI' has a tendency towards fascistic solutionism."
https://techwontsave.us/episode/247_data_vampires_fighting_for_control_episode_4
#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DataVampires #fascism #technocracy #TechnoSolutionism
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🗽#NetworkStates by
@balajis as #Crypto-#Libertarian Worldview #StartupSociety #TechnoSolutionism #Transactional Is this a exclusivist model?In #SOAM Residence programme we analyzed potential responses #Web3 #Blockchain #Governance https://mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/10/361 -
The present post only is a complement to the excellent answer by @ds
@talkinto
Indeed people are reluctant to solutions coming from the industry. Witness the enormous literature on #populism.Hence we do not live in a "solutionist age". Morozov stirred a moral panic to boost his sales. Which worked.
Do you know about Herbert #Marcuse?@anthropocene @technique @climate
#geoEngineering #transition #mitigation #marketing #books #solutionism #TechnoSolutionism #Tech #technology
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Anyone remembers the #OLPCXO? The device from from the #OneLaptopPerChild tech project disguised as #humanitarian?
Spotted one “in the wild”, last week. It was running Ubuntu instead of Sugar. And its use had little to do with the original purpose of the “$100 laptop for children in the developing world”.
To this day, the whole project is a reminder of the dangers of #Technosolutionism and the perils of #NarrowThinking, despite #Papert and #constructionism
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"EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER #ElonMusk ANNOUNCES 'SELF-DRIVING' FEATURE
"#Musk has said #Tesla’s problematic #autopilot features are 'really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.' "
#TechFutures #technosolutionism #SelfDrivingVehicles #transport
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
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"EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER #ElonMusk ANNOUNCES 'SELF-DRIVING' FEATURE
"#Musk has said #Tesla’s problematic #autopilot features are 'really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.' "
#TechFutures #technosolutionism #SelfDrivingVehicles #transport
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
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"EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER #ElonMusk ANNOUNCES 'SELF-DRIVING' FEATURE
"#Musk has said #Tesla’s problematic #autopilot features are 'really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.' "
#TechFutures #technosolutionism #SelfDrivingVehicles #transport
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
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"EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER #ElonMusk ANNOUNCES 'SELF-DRIVING' FEATURE
"#Musk has said #Tesla’s problematic #autopilot features are 'really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.' "
#TechFutures #technosolutionism #SelfDrivingVehicles #transport
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
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"EXCLUSIVE: SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF TESLA CRASH ON SF’S BAY BRIDGE HOURS AFTER #ElonMusk ANNOUNCES 'SELF-DRIVING' FEATURE
"#Musk has said #Tesla’s problematic #autopilot features are 'really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.' "
#TechFutures #technosolutionism #SelfDrivingVehicles #transport
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/
