The Nooscope Manifested: Artificial Intelligence as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism

The Nooscope is a cartography of the limits of artificial intelligence, intended as a provocation to both computer science and the humanities. Any map is a partial perspective, a way to provoke debate. Similarly, this map is a manifesto. Its main purpose is to challenge the mystifications of artificial intelligence. First, as a technical definition of intelligence and, second, as a political form that would be autonomous from society and the human. The map aims to be also a pedagogical diagram for illuminating the complex structure of machine learning systems.