There's a battle for the narrative of AI and emerging technologies that's been going on for a while.

Who's it built for?

Who does it serve?

Does it really do what they say it does, or is that all marketing aka hype?

The more people fall in love with the technology and what it can do for them, the less they want to know the answers to these questions- if they ever did in the first place.

In the AI space, "ex risk" folks go back and forth with the "AI Utopians" on whether they're building AI that's going to wipe out humanity or help us transcend to the 2nd coming.

Tech as an industry is often headed by Techno Optimists who talk about how tech shouldn't be restricted and basically unleashed on the world as that's what's best for humanity (complete bollocks, but go off).

We talk about "getting a seat at the table" of the tech industry for under represented groups because we understand that tech is very, very much political in how it's ideated, designed, developed and deployed.

This understanding- that the tech makers knowledge, biases, wants, needs, values and political leanings, are incorporated in the soul of the machine- is not new.

So let's not act "brand new" around the question of whether technology is political or not.

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