Pluribus: Natality and AI
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Birkbeck Central
AI Singulatarian discourse promises a new dawn of intelligence. A state of superior knowledge where all problems are solvable and all desires can be satisfied. This focus on novelty gives the illusion of newness but in reality, seeks to endlessly reincorporate anomalies into an algorithm. What Adorno might have characterised as ‘pseudo-activity’. The recent TV drama Pluribus dramatizes the arrival of this state of universal consciousness and demonstrates why it is only through the particular that the universal exists. Arendt spoke of natality as an endless potential for the birth of something singular and unprecedented, a source of optimism but more conceptually an ontological dimension of human existence. The type of intelligence that we are told can replace us, lacks precisely the intractable singularity of subjectivity.
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Isabel Millar
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Isabel Millar is a London-based philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence and the forthcoming Patipolitics. She earned a PhD in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis from Kingston University, holds an MA from Birkbeck, University of London, and a BA from University of Sussex. Millar is an Associate Researcher at Newcastle University, teaches at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, and co-founded the Institute of Symbolic Exchange. Her work spans academic and public platforms, including appearances on Frankie Boyle's New World Order, with essays and interviews translated into multiple languages.
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