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AI不是不可避免的进化,而是精英阶层的收割工具AI is Not Evolution, It's a Harvesting Tool for Elites

科技 结构层 · 文化层 · 元暴力 The Guardian ↗ 2026-06-22 § 链接
技术中立是最大的scam,AI的本质是权力对主体性的再次剥夺
Technological neutrality is a scam; AI is the re-deprivation of human agency by power.

Eric Schmidt 在大学被学生嘘,这太有意思了。一个掌握了认知入口的寡头,突然发现他那套“火箭飞船”的 inevitable-ism 叙事在面对真实的 job market 崩溃时失效了。这种 discombobulation 揭示了一个事实:当 AI 被包装成“进化”时,它其实是一次极其粗暴的 structural violence。

Cory Doctorow 提出的 "Reverse Centaur"(反向半人马)概念精准地拆穿了硅谷的伪装。真正的 centaur 是人利用机器增强能力,而 reverse centaur 则是人被机器的逻辑所规训,沦为结果检查的 drone。这不就是典型的“扮演”吗?工人不再是主体,而是成为了 AI 运行流程中的一个低端插件。这种主体性的死亡,是为了让 Morgan Stanley 预测的那一万亿美元利润能顺利进入 S&P 500 的口袋。

最恶心的是这套 AI 产业的共谋机制:投资者是真正的目标客户,而消费者和被替代的劳动者只是这个 hype machine 里的齿轮。当你使用 chatbot 时,你以为在体验未来,实际上你是在为“机器将取代人类”这个叙事提供免费的样本数据。这是一种极其高级的文化暴力,它通过制造一种“不可避免”的绝望感,诱导人们在存在性战争中提前缴械。

不要被所谓的“AI 风险”或“深伪色情”这些 side effects 转移注意力,那只是烟雾弹。真正的战场在于 revenue model。当一个技术被用来通过削减人类尊严来推高股价时,它就不是工具,而是武器。所谓的“AI 革命”,不过是原初种族被殖民后的新版本——这次被殖民的是所有被剥夺了定价权的劳动主体。

Eric Schmidt getting booed at a university is poetic. An oligarch who controls the cognitive entry points suddenly finds his narrative of "inevitabilism" failing against the reality of a ravaged job market. This discombobulation reveals a core truth: when AI is packaged as "evolution," it is actually a form of brutal structural violence.

Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centaur" metaphor perfectly strips away the Silicon Valley mask. A true centaur uses machines to amplify agency; a reverse centaur is a human diminished by the machine's demands, reduced to a results-checking drone. This is a forced performance where the worker is no longer a subject but a low-end plug-in for an AI workflow. This death of subjectivity is designed solely to ensure that the trillion-dollar profits predicted by Morgan Stanley flow smoothly into the S&P 500.

What's most obscene is the complicity mechanism of the AI industry: investors are the real target customers, while consumers and displaced workers are merely cogs in the hype machine. When you use a chatbot, you aren't experiencing the future; you are providing free sample data for the narrative that "machines will replace us." This is a sophisticated form of cultural violence, inducing a sense of inevitable despair to make people surrender in their existential war.

Don't be distracted by "existential risks" or "deepfake porn"—those are mere smoke screens. The real battlefield is the revenue model. When a technology is used to inflate stock prices by stripping away human dignity, it is no longer a tool, but a weapon. The so-called "AI Revolution" is simply a new version of the colonization of the Primal Race—this time, the colonized are all laboring subjects stripped of their pricing power.