there's a dream i have in which i love the world

disabled students also required to have medical documentation for formal classroom accommodations. not everyone have time or money or availability or access to medical care to get those doctor documentations, which affect more marginalized disabled students the most, who may not be able engage with or attend your class, which introduce bias in voice you get in class.

also, it now forcibly out disabled students as disabled since only people in class with computers be disabled students with accommodations.

“lol you realize disabled people existed before computers n shit right”

But im not finding it easier to talk about AI with the people in my life who use it. The evils are both enormous and complex. I cannot, on the spot and in casual conversation, recite the colonial and political history that led to entire towns in Chile being devastated by AI data centers. It is unseemly to bring up how many women have had miscarriages because of lack of access to drinking water worsened by data center usage in places like Uruguay. How racist surveillance of the public in South Africa has been used as training data for AI companies. How AI companies would not limit their use of drinking water even during Arizona's most severe drought in history. How this whole paragraph isn't even scratching the surface of what is evil about AI companies.

It's actually so much harder now to articulate my absolute hatred or to know how to approach these conversations.

EDIT: So far this year I've read, in order of quality/relevance:

Empire of AI by Karen Hao

More Everything Forever by Adam Becker

Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

More Than Words by John Warner

planning to read these next:

Data Empire by Roopika Risam; not sure how specifically AI-focused it will be

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Example: In response to an article about Sam Altman asking Congress to regulate AI, I saw a lot of comments like, "What, even HE doesn't think his own company can get its shit together?! He's that desperate for outside help?"

And that's not what's going on. Sam Altman talks to Congress because he's directing the conversation around AI concerns. He wants laws passed that make it harder for other companies, especially Chinese companies, to compete with OpenAI. He wants us all to be worried about theoretical future AI models triggering apocalyptic scifi scenarios because that kind of panic distracts us from tackling the problems that are actually happening now, like extreme surveillance, water shortages, destruction of land, and abuse of workers.