Echoes of Control: How AI Revives the Technocratic Dream

Artificial intelligence doesn’t mark a break with the past but mirrors the epistemic crisis of our age – one that re-legitimises technocratic power by replacing meaning with measurable outcomes

The following post is an edited version of an essay written as a contribution to a new book, AI: Five Critical Essays on Artificial Intelligence, edited by Austin Williams and published by TRG Publishers.

The debate over artificial intelligence has been framed in technologically-determinist apocalyptic tones: either we are on the verge of unleashing mach…