Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI | DISCO Network

A.I. is inevitable — at least, that is what we would be led to believe from the nonstop media coverage, podcast interviews with tech billionaires, and the advertisements interspersed in our TikTok and Reels doomscrolling sessions. But what does it mean to bring a critical eye to Generative A.I.? Why should the average person care about how their data is used to fuel these systems? Who does the labor that makes them work? And what impact will this push to incorporate A.I. in the classroom, healthcare, politics, and pop culture have on us as a society and on our environment? This panel considers three possibilities: refusal, resistance, and repair as responses to A.I.’s creep into our daily lives.

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