“Emmanuel Macron, J.D. Vance & Berlin artist collectives may seem like unlikely allies, but they all agree that Europe’s ‘regulate first, build later (maybe)’ approach to AI is not working.” —Benjamin Bratton www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

I will conclude this portion of the thread with a key point Benjamin Bratton makes about #AI non-grief: "There are ‘non-grief’ ways of thinking through a philosophy of artificialized intelligence that are neither optimistic nor pessimistic, utopian nor dystopian."

!? “Benjamin H Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego, welcomed the initiative as a move towards the “diffusion” of the technology. “It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera.”

“La comprensión de la naturaleza como fuente vital, por definición nunca artificial en sí misma, sino más tarde alterada por la cultura, es una noción reaccionaria” —Benjamin Bratton

Benjamin Bratton (The Stack)

Feed: "NOEMA" By: Benjamin Bratton on Tuesday, September 30, 2025

"Convincing people that AI is both about to destroy their culture and is also fake does not result in more agency, more universal mediation of collective intelligence, but less." By Benjamin Bratton in @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

This year's issue includes: - Essays from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Benjamin Bratton, and @saraimari.bsky.social consider how to define and differentiate intelligence, computation, and identity in the face of synthetic minds.

“The Earth has very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton,” posits Benjamin Bratton in an essay about what he terms “planetary sapience.”

1/4 Benjamin Bratton & Nirit Weiss-Blatt in Noema—a “philanthropic” tax break turned tech PR. Their “AI is…” chart pretends to map the extremes of AI discourse, but it’s really a move to manage it #AI

“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.” – Benjamin Bratton, The Stack

i wonder what benjamin bratton thinks about the exocapitalism book. i was gonna tweet about it but he follows me on twitter and i might be in one of his classes next term at UCSD so i'm kinda scared to write about it there lmao its ya boi

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.

“Today the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms. This is what backfiring looks like.” —Benjamin Bratton #europe #ai #airegulation

1/2 Elon Musk and Benjamin Bratton represent two sides of the same hollow game: using abstract philosophy and spectacle to legitimize techno-capitalist fantasies. Musk wraps brute ambition in shallow ideas; Bratton wraps shallow ideas in grand systems.

1/5 Benjamin Bratton doesn’t critique tech—he aestheticizes it. His abstract systems dress power in theory, making planetary computation look inevitable, even beautiful. It feels like philosophy, but acts like branding.

1/6 I mean—it’s despicable that public money is being used to fund people like Benjamin Bratton. Academic grift disguised as planetary salvation. We deserve better than glossy PowerPoint cosmology sold as critical theory.

"How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?" by Benjamin Bratton (2021) "The affirmation or negation of what the human is also plays out through what humans can be."

Bratton on the Artificiality podcast recently argues that LLMs represent a kind of redistribution of expertise, a transfer of intellectual capital from the global north to the global south- (an inversion of the standard extraction critique) artificialityinstitute.org/benjamin-bra... it’s ya boi

Our artificial baby language learner (fiwGAN) and its latent space exhibited @berggruen.org in collaboration with Antikythera @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social Benjamin Bratton

Architecture is the solidification of social form in the built environment. It is the structure of collective organization… Language is the architecture within which we refer to systems. Benjamin H. Bratton Pornotopias [ @litterariaprag.bsky.social ] litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/pornot...

How We Discovered Our Own Extinction with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton. For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that. Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms.

In this episode, philosopher Thomas Moynihan joins Benjamin Bratton to trace the history of a shift in thinking: that the future isn’t guaranteed. Futurology Pod now available on all podcast platforms. #berggrueninstitute #futurologypod

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I hope you can join my Long Now talk with Benjamin Bratton on September 16. We'll explore what intelligence really means in the age of AI, live from San Francisco and streaming online: bit.ly/3HFVOEI

i think ZUN and benjamin bratton should meet

Benjamin Bratton sintetiza su perspectiva sistémica sobre los cambios sociales y tecnológicos en curso, publicada en The Stack (“La Pila”). Entrevista de Facundo Carmona en @crisisrevista.bsky.social 🧐 revistacrisis.com.ar/notas/ni-apo...

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