Abolitionist analysis exposes the prison-industrial-AI complex as one system

Evidence

Davis develops abolitionist argument in clear, accessible prose, drawing on her own activist and scholarly experience. For AI-equity readers, Are Prisons Obsolete? is essential context for any work on carceral technology, predictive policing, and the prison-industrial-AI complex. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2601

Categorization

• XREF: Links carceral studies (Alexander 2681, Gilmore 2687, Kaba 2685) to predictive policing and AI under one framework. — connects to: Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115; Military and prison industrial complexes are symbiotic, sharing technologies; Slavery’s abolition parallels the conceivable abolition of prisons (+14 more)

Related

• Systems of thought become prisons that are easily made, applied, and guarded (similarity 0.88)
• Prison abolition has a long history but remains culturally unthinkable (similarity 0.86)
• The prison industrial complex term contests crime as the root cause of imprisonment (similarity 0.82)
• Military and prison industrial complexes are symbiotic, sharing technologies (similarity 0.81)
• Abolition requires a continuum of alternatives, not prisonlike substitutes (similarity 0.81)
• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force (similarity 0.81)
• Punishment follows politics, corporate profit, and media, not crime itself (similarity 0.79)
• Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism (similarity 0.79)
• The carceral state and its machine learning extensions continue older technologies of dispossession. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Military and prison industrial complexes are symbiotic, sharing technologies #expands (0.50)
• Current ideologies in AI reflect historical eugenics concepts. #expands (0.50) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 396
• The Thirteenth Amendment’s crime clause legalized post-emancipation re-enslavement via penal servitude #expands (0.50)
• Prison disciplined workers for industrial capitalism #contradicts (0.40) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 115
• Slavery’s abolition parallels the conceivable abolition of prisons #corroborates (0.40)
• Punishment’s meaning is fashioned through institutional symbiotic relationships #expands (0.40) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 283
• The prison industrial complex term contests crime as the root cause of imprisonment #expands (0.40) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 225
• The prison disciplined convicts into an industrial labor force #expands (0.40)
• Engaging with AI raises questions about human-machine boundaries. #expands (0.40) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 968
• Abolition requires a continuum of alternatives, not prisonlike substitutes #expands (0.35) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 284
• Post-slavery prisons reabsorbed emancipated black labor through the convict lease system #expands (0.30) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 253