Digitale Solidarität. Perspektiven der Netzpolitik (video)

Step one: Stage an (AI) coup. Part step two: Solidify your power through the law.

"On May 11th, 2025, the U.S. Congress Energy and Commerce committee introduced a Budget Reconciliation Bill with the inclusion of a broad prohibition on state laws or regulations relating to artificial intelligence or automated decision systems. As of May 22nd, the Bill has been approved by Congress and awaits a vote in the Senate.

The provision in the draft Budget Reconciliation bill states that “no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act”. "

The first step of automation is turning people to machines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.3wnj.iWa0IupCahPv&smid=url-share

I think the focus on accuracy of #ai generated summaries replacing traditional search misses the point.

Sure, there have been embarrassing early mistakes (put glue on the 🍕, hahaha), but these are technical issues that will be solved. In all cases, surely not, but is traditional search perfect? When justifiably criticizing something new, we should not make the mistake of idealizing the old.

The main issues are elsewhere, IMHO.

First, we centralize interpretation. Instead of everyone making their own sense of the contradictory information we find online, we get a summary that makes it all seems coherent. This is the old problem of the selection of sources prefiguring the...