Oh no, not yet another AI talk!

This AI Rant is not a talk about whether AI is good or bad. That question is too clean, too convenient, and far too useful to the people selling us the answer.

AI helps. It writes, summarizes, translates, explains code, structures ideas, and sometimes makes overloaded workdays more bearable. That is exactly what makes it complicated. Usefulness is not innocence. Usefulness is how systems spread, become normal, and turn into dependency.

This keynote looks behind the friendly surface of AI and asks what kind of system is being strengthened there. Who owns the infrastructure? Whose labor feeds the machine? Whose data, art, language, code, forum posts, images, and books were turned into “training data”? Who becomes more controllable, more dependent, more replaceable? Who pays the ecological, social, and political bill? And why are we so eager to call all of this progress?

AI Rant is a leftist, feminist, and class-conscious critique of AI as an extraction machine with a friendly interface. It is about invisible labor, global exploitation, stolen data, the enclosure of common culture, technofeudalism, platform power, the career tax of doubt, delegated guilt through “responsible AI”, the threat of replacement hanging over workers, and the comfortable moral distance of privileged users.

The talk is for people who use AI, understand that it can be useful, and still refuse to pretend that a better prompt is a political answer. The talk is about making the right questions political again: Who owns this machine? Who profits? Who loses power? Who is allowed to object? And what would it take to stop organizing digital infrastructure as the private kingdom of a handful of companies?

Let’s be angry together.