CounterPunch.org | Oedipus Shrugs: The Undeep Grammar of AI by Greg Moses
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Greg Moses’s “Oedipus Shrugs: The Undeep Grammar of AI” argues that artificial intelligence cannot be treated as a linguistic or laboring subject because it lacks the lived, unconscious ties that give meaning to human speech and work. He critiques the tendency to label AI agents as “workers” or to frame higher‑education curricula around immediate market‑value skills, warning that such approaches undercut the deeper, psycho‑social understanding that true education should foster. Drawing on Marxist and Freudian concepts, Moses contends that college graduates need robust critical tools to navigate AI’s disruptive impact rather than shallow job‑training, and he warns that Texas’s political climate is turning faculty into wage earners while using AI to prioritize profit over comprehension. Ultimately, he calls for a return to foundational, critical inquiry so that future generations can grasp why a skill matters, rather than being reduced to “motherless” or purely utilitarian functions.
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