They Will Replace U.S.: AI and the Hallucinations of Corporations
I address AI as a manifestation of the corporate form in U.S.culture, and as it relates to the dreams of (or ascribed to) fascism and corporations. The merger of state and corporate power represents the trajectory of the corporation—to take over the state; elide accountability, empathy, transparency...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:idus________::d510832d71201c597a9bcf346ab87eeb |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/185314 http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/REN.2025.i29.13 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Posthumanism artificial intelligence AI hallucinations corporations corporate personhood fascism human rights replacement theory posthumanismo inteligencia artificial IA alucinaciones corporaciones condición humana de las corporativas fascismo derechos humanos teoría del reemplazo |
| Sumario: | I address AI as a manifestation of the corporate form in U.S.culture, and as it relates to the dreams of (or ascribed to) fascism and corporations. The merger of state and corporate power represents the trajectory of the corporation—to take over the state; elide accountability, empathy, transparency and (human) agency; and trade places with (and finally eliminate) people. The merger of state and corporate AI—a final stage of corporate speech, networking, and legalontology—facilitates the takeover of human personhoodby corporate personhood, and I trace the effects of that process in the systemic inversion of norms. Corporate personhood is part of a zero-sum game in which rights, speech, and identities are appropriated from people. When AI technology is grafted onto political systems and social media, the ensuing hallucinations are nightmares.The corporation always has been a posthuman simulacrum of persons, and its AI, in its wake, dreams of eliminating workers and people altogether. |
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