AI is a sort of mirror, but not an accurate one. It reflects a deeply distorted version of ourselves back to us.

In creating this episode, the doubles seemed to proliferate, echoing the reflective nature of AI itself. We get into:

2 predominant ways in which people tend to relate to AI

-Unquestioning acceptance

-Resistance

2 key reasons for resistance

-AI embeds the established structures of power

-AI impels in the direction of technocracy and climate collapse

2 predominant future timelines for humanity

-Machinic death spiral

-Beauty, justice, and flourishing

2 hemispheric modes or, from an esoteric perspective, the masculine and the feminine, and what this has to do with AI

-Logic, abstraction, theory

-Presence, relationality, the reality abstracted from

If AI is a mirror, it’s a sort of fun-house or magic mirror, one that distorts in the direction of established structures of power, and the transhumanist, technocratic timeline.

Refusing to engage with AI may seem like the obvious solution, but that tactic merely tacitly gives consent to the technocratic potential that we are rapidly careening toward, with our involvement or without.

This potential is by no means inevitable. We can take the magic back into our own hands by alchemizing AI, by refusing technocratic infrastructure such as digital ID and digital currency, by demanding open and transparent AI systems as well as more deeply ethical and reverent safety protocol, and most importantly, by decentralizing structures of power.

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