AI has been ‘leveraged’ since 2014 to ‘transform’ the oil and gas industry, by enabling exploitation of previously hard-to-access reserves of fossil fuels, in full awareness of the irreparable damage done as a result. Techno-optimism is not merely naïve. Future histories of ‘transformation’ are often part of a political project to protect and advance the rights and interests of extractive capitalism while destroying cultures, societies and the environment without a care.
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Matthew Moran 