Vol. II · No. 156
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Artificial Bureaucracy.

Kevin Baker on the history of computing, government software, and bureaucratic systems.

Recent essays

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Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

Context Widows

or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement

Rules

I'll be in San Francisco this Thursday for the Kernel Issue 5 launch party at Gray Area — come celebrate with us if you're around.

Crisis of Confidence

Avoidance Machines, Part 2

Avoidance Machines

Part 1 of a Series

Gaza, "Psyop Brain," and the Long Shadow of Russiagate

What happens to politics when everything is a psyop?

Lavender, Military AI, and Technological Delegation

Earlier today, the Tel Aviv-based outlet +972 Magazine published a long exposé on “Lavender,” an artificial intelligence-based program that Israel uses to automatically identify and target suspected Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters. The entire arti…

The Machine Adapts (if we make it)

Beyond the "impact" model of AI.

The Insignia of Late Cold-War Cyberwarriors

Artificial Bureaucracy is a reader-supported publication.

Big Brother lives in the hills of West Virginia

The Martinsburg Monster in popular media.

[Artificial Bureaucracy] - 0.0 - Hello World

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