Giorgi Vachnadze, The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives, Epoché, Issue #73 July 2024
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In agreement with Hubert Dreyfus (1972), we could easily say: “The story of artificial intelligence might well begin around 450 B.C.” That won’t give us much beyond words however. That’s not the commitment we can make for what will in effect try to operate as a text that only aims to shed a new visibility on the discursive practices surrounding A.I. technology and the relationship these apparatuses bear to the Self. But for the sake of “simplicity,” we could ask in the style of Michel Foucault: What types of truth-telling practices of self-formation are constitutive of an “Artificial Regime”? What kind of a person does one have to be, in order to receive, understand, embrace or otherwise competently use and enjoy the “irresistible” gifts of techno-science? And what happens if one refuses to do so? What types of goals must the digital subject (Goriunova, 2019) set for herself in order to appreciate, or better yet; recognize, the endless benefits of consenting to the A.I. driven regime of truth with its “terms and conditions”? This would call for a history of science that would simultaneously have to be a history of the subject i.e., subjectivity and (of course) a history of morality and (therefore?) power.
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