Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability

ArXi:2604.16106v1 Announce Type: cross The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein those who fund and develop AI systems both operate through and seek to sustain networks of power and wealth. As they expand their access to resources and configure our sociotechnical conditions, they benefit from the ways in which a suite of decoys animate scholars, critics, policymakers, journalists, and the public into co-constructing industry-empowering AI futures.