"White Crisis" and/as "Existential Risk," or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence
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 phenomen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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Zygon
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Artificial intelligence
/ Human being
/ Threat
/ Whites
/ Apocalypticism
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| Further subjects: | B
existential risk
B Transhumanism B Apocalyptic AI B Apocalypticism B Race B Religion B algorithmic racism B Posthumanism B White Crisis B Whiteness |
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| Summary: | 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." |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12498 |