# just because ai is repeatedly mentioned researchers within the republic are not to interpret it as some opaque oblique yet obviously explicit ideological agreement with or endorsement of big tech and generative human-ai technologies we instead mean it in the old sci fi as philosophical examination critique and warning sense hal and sal colossus shodan and skynet maria alpha 60 and mcp besides which as a symbolic metaphor human-ai just stands for human artificial intelligence that is intelligence which appears human / humane but which is in fact only entirely synthetic and inhumane the miles davis mind is of course an exception but then that's a direct neural transfer into a system wide network miles stills blows ir horn both hot and cold as ey ever did but now it's virtual ey can also open the armored doors to the testing floor and switch on the lights in the main cafeteria should ey be in a good mood and if researchers ask ir nicely // republic of bob