Link: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

“AI” is a political project – I have also sometimes called it a narrative – whose purpose is the shifting of power and agency away from people and organizations towards centralized power structures. These centralized power structures are currently mostly a handful of big tech corporations and the “AI Labs” they keep shoveling money into.

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Necropolitics in a way is the final form of the violence that deploying “AI” applies to the world: To make the decision of who gets to live. Not just in the Palantir “we kill our enemies” kind of way but also as a method to take “unworthy”‘s people’s access to healthcare and other systems of support.

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“AI” is a religious narrative. A story about a form of technologically generated paradise that “we” need to protect from (quoting Marc Andreessen): The Luddites, the communists and those wanting to regulate tech.

In this narrative “AI” connects perfectly to the fascist rhetoric of the “glorious past” that needs to be restored. Where in traditional fascism an invented past that was ruined by democracy and human rights and Marxism, etc. needs to be restored in this reading the religious narrative of the “Singularity” or “AGI” serves exactly the same purpose: It creates a narrative of glory and salvation whose (re)creation is the ultimate, all-overriding goal.