Foucauldian Quotes

“We built AI to process human knowledge — but did we anticipate that it would dismantle the human who does the knowing?”
― Martin Neilan, After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge

“The birth of the Node is not the end of the human but the end of a particular fantasy of the human, the fantasy of sovereignty, of exception, of standing outside and above.”
― Martin Neilan, After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge

“There is a version of you that makes consequential decisions about your life, and you have never met it.”
― Martin Neilan, After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge

“The system that produces loneliness and anxiety sells you the algorithmic solution to loneliness and anxiety, all whilst calling it care.”
― Martin Neilan, After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge