interview by ALEPH MOLINARI artworks by HARMONY KORINE The Political theorist and writer uncovers the dangers of AI: the insidious neoliberalist ideology fueling Silicon Valley’s delusional promise to solve ALL of humanity’s problems, while perpetuating voracious and destructive capitalism. ALEPH MOLINARI — This issue of Purple is about how we can redirect the revolutions that are happening now — in technology, gender, psychedelics — toward a better world. Artificial intelligence is one of these revolutions that has exploded over the past year, and everybody’s using it in a very casual way. Let’s start with the basics. How would you define AI? EVGENY MOROZOV — We inherited this clunky term from the Cold War. The concept emerged in the mid-1950s in the military milieu, in the context of automating cognitive tasks related to warfare (e.g., identifying ships in satellite imagery). As with many terms once-fashionable during the Cold War — remember the “domino theory”? — the ambiguity of “artificial intelligence” as a…