Why We Must Abolish A.I. | Denise Utochkin

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Denise Utochkin was a postdoc researcher at the University of Copenhagen investigating how artificial intelligence could be used in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. However, Denise was fired from their postdoc for starting a campaign that sought to abolish AI altogether, after realising that the only way to produce and work with fair algorithms was to not use them at all. I invited Denise onto the show to contextualise AI for us, asking: what are its connections to capitalism, colonialism,…