Anarchism

IMO, other than to fight against establishment AI-powered projects, avoid LLMs and image generation for public facing anarchist agitprop for now because it's currently associated with and controlled by the capitalist class. There isn't really a particularly great application area for LLMs and image generation where I would rather have a machine do the work than a human.

Optimal control theory and reinforcement learning can be used for peaceful robotics applications. Classical machine learning is used all the time in the background without controversy. We can keep doing that. IMO the CEOs and business people don't actually understand the mathematics behind the systems they work with, so if you like math and have the time to pore through research papers, you can expose the business people as jackasses who don't know shit about fuck (even more than they already do themselves).

In the background, work to wrest control of AI from the capitalist class if you have the resources and time. We should periodically revisit the issue as the culture changes and people learn how to use (and misuse) AI tools. IMO it makes sense to introduce it into anarchist spaces only when we can run our own AI resources independently from capitalists. But before that, we're also going to need some technically informed theory about the ethics and philosophy behind AI.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think we need more technical training on how to use AI, both the training/testing workflow and the mathematics behind it. In general, I think that we need to learn more about the technical tools of the oppressors, like missiles, UAVs, LRADs, surveillance technology, etc., so we can properly combat against them.