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Paradigm dissident. My book 'Resisting AI -
An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' is available from bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

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#WelfareNotWarfare People's Assembly had an anti austerity march in central London yesterday; it was good to see disabled people out there & hopefully many who couldn’t make it were able to watch the livestream Here are some of the first pics

#WelfareNotWarfare 

<a href="/pplsassembly/">People's Assembly</a> had an anti austerity march in central London yesterday; it was good to see disabled people out there &amp; hopefully many who couldn’t make it were able to watch the livestream 
Here are some of the first pics
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'The Anti-Dystopian's Guide to GenAI for students & educators - What is GenAI, Why is it Bad, and How Can Higher Education Resist It?' alinautrata.substack.com/p/the-anti-dys… This guide from Dr Alina Utrata is 🔥🔥🔥

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Thanks to POLITICO Pro Morning Technology UK for asking me to respond their weekly Q&A for the Friday 13th(!) edition. As they put it in the newsletter intro, "AI academic Dan McQuillan has some… strong feelings about the U.K.’s AI strategy". danmcquillan.org/mtuk_q_and_a.h…

Thanks to POLITICO Pro Morning Technology UK for asking me to respond their weekly Q&amp;A for the Friday 13th(!) edition. As they put  it in the newsletter intro, "AI academic Dan McQuillan has some… strong  feelings about the U.K.’s AI strategy".
danmcquillan.org/mtuk_q_and_a.h…
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There is no economic case for cutting disability benefits. There is no moral case for cutting disability benefits. It won't help people into employment. It'll mean many who are working won't be able to. It'll destroy the health and social care system. It'll end lives.

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Private Eye FOI shows the majority of working PIP claimants will lose support under bill. 🔹 510,000 PIP claimants are in work 🔹 281,000 will lose PIP under the 4-point rule 🔹 That’s more than half of all working claimants PIP cuts likely to STOP work. tinyurl.com/5cr9vf6h

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Q&A on AI & Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty_q…

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I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.h…

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.h…
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hear, hear! "I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination."

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This talk does a great job of debunking 'digital sovereignty'. The EU is as AI-pilled as everywhere else and their homebrew solutions are tacking to the far right. 'Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise' youtube.com/watch?v=nbz66d…

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Saying 'people get things wrong too' is making a false category comparison between embodied, relational beings and an instrument of manipulation that's been tuned to fool people.

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On the way back home, an unusual scene caught my attention, crowds of people running frantically, as if something monumental had just happened. I stopped one of the bystanders standing by the roadside and asked in astonishment, “What’s going on?” He replied, his voice a mix of