OpenAI has a New Deal to sell you. On Monday, the embattled tech company released an “industrial policy” blueprint that lays out a series of progressive-sounding policy proposals meant to ease a supposedly inevitable “transition” toward something called superintelligence. The document, which espouses the company’s commitment to some of Democrats’ favorite buzzwords—like “access, agency, and…

Struggles against oppression start with people critically reflecting on their experiences. What happens to such struggles when we outsource our thinking to AI and replace human interlocutors with sycophantic chatbots?

With the emergence of chatbots, the outsourcing of thinking — and therefore also the critical questioning of existing social norms and power relations — is taking a new…