Claims

AI is not merely a technological tool but an algorithmic invasion with five elements: the monopolistic threat to democracy and capitalism, the fascination it generates, the danger it poses, and dimensions of surveillance capitalism that prioritize the conquest of human consciousness itself.

Understanding how AI systems work inside (their 'lumps of irreducible computation') is not necessary for using them, just as understanding how horses work internally was not necessary for riding them; this is a return to how technology worked before the industrial revolution made it simple enough to understand.

We can learn to exist alongside systems we don't understand by using tools we've always used: making predictions, creating shelters, and organizing our society around managing incomprehensible natural forces (like tornadoes).