"Anarcho"-Capitalist" Libertards in action From the newsletter editor: "When Rodrigo Ochigame was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, other students rushed to major in computer science and land high-paying tech jobs, but Ochigame designed his own course of study, focused on “algorithmic filtering” and the “computational regulation of social and political life” — fortuitously, years before the Facebook-assisted election of Donald Trump. After graduating, he contributed an article to the New Left Review on how social media filters hurt Indigenous activists in their land dispute with agribusiness in Ochigame’s native Brazil. That journal article would ultimately help Ochigame conduct an investigation, published in The Intercept, on how the field of artificial intelligence ethics has been twisted to serve the goals of big tech. The New Left piece caught the attention of staff at MIT’s Media Lab, and they recruited him. Prior to joining the lab, Ochigame says, “I had some theoretical objections to the mathematical formalisms of fairness in AI but didn’t realize the organized lobbying operation behind it.” Under the leadership of Joichi Ito (financially connected to Jeffery Epstein), his misgivings only grew, and Ochigame resigned in August." https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/