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AI Can Mention the Oppressed and Still Strip Them of Agency

A public explanation of The Grammar of Asymmetric Visibility: AI, Zionism, and the Reallocation of Political Agency, a new paper by Agustin V. Startari.

The problem is not only censorship. The problem is grammar.

Most debates about artificial intelligence and political discourse still begin with the wrong question.

They ask:

Does AI mention the victims?

Does AI include both sides?

Does AI avoid hate speech?

Does AI sound neutral?

Does AI summarize the event?

Those questions matter, but they are not enough.

A population can be mentioned constantly and still be weakened politically. A system can speak about Palestine, Iran, occupation, sanctions, civilian casualties, military escalation, platform moderation, and humanitarian suffering while still assigning real agency only to dominant actors.

That is the core argument of my new paper:

The Grammar of Asymmetric Visibility: AI, Zionism, and the Reallocation of Political Agency

The paper introduces asymmetric visibilityas a...

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The problem is not only censorship. The problem is grammar.

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