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@alixdunn.com sat down with @carissaveliz.bsky.social to talk about her new book, ‘Prophecy.’ She walks us down the well-worn path of prediction as a political tool: power brokers using forecasts to bend the future towards their will by convincing the rest of us that it’s destiny, not marketing.

themaybe.orgBeware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa VélizCarissa explains why a prediction is a command disguised as a description, and how powerful people use algorithms to fulfill their own forecasts.