In 1973’s Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we’re being sold something similar.
There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn’t want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what’s left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month.
Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from “will the machine wake up” to “who enclosed the commons this time?”
On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx’s Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus.
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