A political essay arguing that modern AI systems are structurally fascist artifacts, not merely tools that fascists happen to use. Drawing on philosopher Winner's 'Do artifacts have politics?' framework, the author identifies several fascist tendencies embedded in AI: normalization of violence (data theft, exploitation of global south labelers, colonial data bias), destruction of labor solidarity, epistemic injustice through replacing verifiable truth with opaque outputs, and anti-democratic dismantling of bureaucratic accountability. The author also frames the AI 'singularity' narrative as a fascist-adjacent religious myth, and argues that open source alone cannot fix these structural problems. The piece concludes that antifascist technology must be deliberately built, and some systems may need to be rejected entirely.
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