Given the focus of this series of articles in Technophany’s Commentaries on techno-policing and surveillance in France, we would like to start by asking you about the following assertion that you make in Crapularity Hermeneutics: “Whether or not A.I., or some types of A.I., are fundamentally flawed and unfit for their purpose, they nevertheless will be developed and used when they seem to get things done and when they deliver, most importantly, quantifiable results.” Drawing on some of the psychoanalytic undertones of the text, we wanted to ask how AI systems create an “illusion of control,” and how that illusion structures our reality.
