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This week, Jacobin published a debate between Holly Buck and Aaron Regunberg on how socialists should orient themselves with respect to data center moratoria. While Buck argues a moratoria is an insufficient plan to govern AI, Regunberg thinks moratoria are a platform of grassroots political will with which socialsts might build class consciousness.

In my article, I argue that whether we succumb to tailism or build a genuine socialist movement out of moratoria advocacy is contingent on the clarity of our demands. “If we want to expand grassroots political anger to fight Big Tech into a political program that can meet our moment, we must communicate a clear and salient vision for AI governance that goes beyond the first step.”

Article attached here, curious how people think about this issue. Does your chapter do data center advocacy? Have they succeeded in avoiding tailism? What should our concrete demands for AI governance be?: Moratorium... for what? - by Alexei Gannon