How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative

The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in order to reap the (spectacular) benefits it has to offer. In this debate piece we offer an alternative perspective. AI, we posit, is irredeemably harmful, seemingly inevitable, yet open to contestation in a range of more or less fundamental ways which are yet to be properly understood, and which we set out here to schematise as a range of alternative ways to be ‘anti-AI’ in the face of an overwhelming sense that ‘there is no alternative’.