ISSN:
1467-9744
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In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus. Building on earlier work, I explore the phenomenon of existential risk associated with Apocalyptic AI in relation to "White Crisis," a modern racial phenomenon with premodern religious origins. Adopting a critical race theoretical and decolonial perspective, I argue that all three phenomena are entangled and they should be understood as a strategy, albeit perhaps merely rhetorical, for maintaining white hegemony under nonwhite contestation. I further suggest that this claim can be shown to be supported by the disclosure of continuity through change in the long-durée entanglement of race and religion associated with the establishment, maintenance, expansion, and refinement of the modern/colonial world system if and when such phenomena are understood as iterative shifts in a programmatic trajectory of domination which might usefully be framed as "algorithmic racism."
In:
Zygon, Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 1966, 54(2019), 1, Seite 207-224, 1467-9744
In:
volume:54
In:
year:2019
In:
number:1
In:
pages:207-224
Language:
English
Keywords:
Künstliche Intelligenz
;
Mensch
;
Bedrohung
;
Weiße
;
Apokalyptik
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