Cybernetic Discourse Analysis: “Mother Was an AI”

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For Latour, via Venturini, AI will simply be another piece of technology inserted into the existing circulation of artifices, without thereby resulting in any exceptional change or modification to human life. They would be efficient and they would naturally be accompanied by the appropriate actions and reactions, struggles, assimilations, critique, and resistance as any other piece of technology that preceded them. Alongside Venturini we can conclude; as far as ANT is concerned AI does fit neatly into the paradigm, however trivially so. No more than any other piece of equipment; shovels, hammers, desktop PCs, and so forth. Yes, AI is an agent, yes, more lifelike than most of the other objects… so what? Just like other objects, autonomous systems are effective actors precisely due to the fact that they are different from humans. “AIs are interesting not because they can succeed in Turing’s imitation game, but because they fail it productively” (Venturini, 2023). More powerful, faster, more efficient, often less prone to error (or prone to different and new kinds of errors), and so on. This makes them only more effective as actors. And it makes them more interesting as objects of investigation and study.