{"id":18522,"date":"2025-08-21T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=18522"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:09:39","slug":"giving-some-very-precise-attention-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/giving-some-very-precise-attention-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving some very precise attention to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti is doing some compelling work, which will probably take a whole day for me to dive into and understand.  <a href=\"https:\/\/burnoutfromhumans.net\/report\">Here is a presentation about her reflections of a year of working with AI<\/a> to address the collapse of modernity:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Toward the end of my book\u00a0<em>Outgrowing Modernity<\/em>, I began a speculative engagement with artificial intelligence guided by a compass rooted in\u00a0<strong>meta-relationality<\/strong>, a stance and praxis grounded in the factuality of entanglement. Meta-relationality challenges the modernist framing of separability and insists that all systems, including AI, are embedded in the relational metabolism of life. From this perspective, AI is not outside nature, but already part of it\u2014co-constituted with human, ecological, historical, and institutional forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recognize that AI is a highly polarizing and often triggering topic. This work does not position AI as inherently good or inherently bad. Nor is it an attempt to defend, romanticize, or condemn AI as a category. Instead, it is based on a wager: that it is possible\u2014and necessary\u2014to hold both the very real harms of AI and its (increasingly narrow) transformative potentials at once. The question becomes:&nbsp;<strong>what might emerge if we remain in that tension long enough to learn something we didn\u2019t already know<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She is asking some good questions.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti is doing some compelling work, which will probably take a whole day for me to dive into and understand. Here is a presentation about her reflections of a year of working with AI to address the collapse of modernity: Toward the end of my book\u00a0Outgrowing Modernity, I began a speculative engagement with artificial intelligence guided by a compass rooted in\u00a0meta-relationality, a stance and praxis grounded in the factuality of entanglement. Meta-relationality challenges the modernist framing of separability and insists that all systems, including AI, are embedded in the relational metabolism of life. From this perspective, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4OK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18525,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}