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Leon S's avatar

James this is fantastic. Yep you could write several books explaining all this but you’ve really made it pretty clear for most of us already in the choir. I like where you’ve gone with this and wholly agree that the revolution will be love. The only way

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Eimear O'Neill's avatar

AI has no capacity for ethics. This alone makes it a powerful tool for domination , ii.e. Power over and abuse of others. Power is neither 'bad' nor 'good'. Use of power solely to gain more power over others as in extractive capitalism, is morally wrong ., Power developed with others can elicit transformative change at multiple levels of scale.

Here's my short definition of power:

*ability for self sovereignty, self definition

*participation in decision-making that effects day to day living

* access to resources ( water, clean air, food, community, meaningful living, learning places, creative expression, health supports, peace) Resources are much more than money.

Power with would be developing and maintaining that with others. Power over is defining who you are and limiting your capacity for self definition, making life shaping decisions without your input, without your consent and for one faction's benefit not for shared community well being.

We need each other right now, to unlearn, relearn and commit to the well being of ourselves and all the more than human world of inter being.

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