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Ali Alkhatib
Personal blog · ali-alkhatib.com/blog · on HN as alialkhatibaiculture
Ali Alkhatib's personal blog at ali-alkhatib.com covers ai and culture. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Defining AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ali Alkhatib's essay defining AI, which argues AI is a political artifact and an ideological project to shift authority away from individuals. Commenters cite it to frame debates about AI critics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Defining AI7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-12-07
- Destroy AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-24
What Hacker News says?
Interesting! I would personally argue that AI as a political project is precisely very authoritarian. I recommend reading Al Khatib's definition to get an unorthodox perspective on the matter: https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai
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on “Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"”Submitted Destroy AI as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThe colloquial definitions have always been more cultural than technical, but it's become more acute recently. > I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. https://ali-alkhatib.com/bl…
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on “Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected”Submitted Anthropological/Artificial Intelligence and the HAI as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThe people who hate "AI" are correctly understanding it as a political project, not simply a technology. Ali Alkhatib's definition here is clarifying in this regard: https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai
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on “Hating AI Is Good”Submitted Destroy AI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is interesting, but a few concerns are nagging me: 1) There's been some research about the demographics of crowdworkers [1] that questions whether it's a representative sample of any particular population, and I wouldn't immediately concede that conclusions drawn from these survey results are externally valid. 2) There's at least a little controversy around how well (or rather, poorly) crowdworkers are paid and…
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on “CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project”Submitted Defining AI as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Ali Alkhatib: Weeds tend not to grow where they can't take root as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted On Google and Intellectual Freedom as a story · 1 points
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