Autonomy and automation
From The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli
In the second half of the twentieth century, ‘Autonomy!’ emerged as the common slogan for both cybernetics and the emerging counterculture. High-level cyberneticians funded by the US army were discussing ‘principles of self-organisation’ in organisms and machines just as antiauthoritarian movements were proposing the same for social and political institutions. As such, these two tendencies debated, for different purposes…