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Ali Alkhatib argues AI definitions miss the point for activists

Essay gains traction on social media

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The essay circulates across social platforms including Bluesky and Mastodon, with users sharing and endorsing Alkhatib's critique of AI definition frameworks. Multiple users highlighted the work as worth reading in full.

Essay gains traction on social media
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“The main issue I have with a lot of work that tries to define AI is that the criteria they use to draw boundaries often turn out to be functionally useless for my needs…Those pedantic fixations don't really benefit the organizers, activists, regular people who are getting crushed by the systems they're trying to work against.”

Ali Alkhatib, Scholar · bluesky ↗

Ali Alkhatib Scholar and essayistNaranayan and Kapoor Authors of "AI Snake Oil"

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