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Statement of Principles on AI
positions understands the current rise of “generative artificial intelligence” (GenAI) to be the latest iteration of capitalist technologies of extraction, whether in terms of natural resources or labor power. As such, GenAI is operationalized precisely through reified abstraction of accumulated human* knowledge as “data,” inherently reductionist, derivative, and ultimately exploitative. While some publications have opted to treat GenAI as a tool for language editing and structural organization that may be used with proper acknowledgment, positions believes that knowledge production is inseparable from any use of language, including but not limited to conceptualizing, summarizing, drafting, editing, revising, rephrasing, translating, or organizing of text through human labor. Without precluding the potential recuperation of AI use for the collective social good, but given the current evidence of its many harms, positions refuses GenAI in any writing and maintains its commitment to embodied human-generated work, whether by its authors, reviewers, editors, or staff. By submitting a manuscript to positions, authors acknowledge that the writing is new and original without duplicate submissions and is not the result (in whole or in part) of GenAI. In turn, the positions editorial team and collective commit to our human-generated writing toward building “critical practices that reflect on the politics of knowing . . . and links between knowledge and knowers as actors in existing social institutions,” as stated in our founding Statement of Purpose.

*The reference to “human” is not to privilege humans as a species or to simplistically differentiate the human from the machine, but to apply the term heuristically to reveal the current impact of GenAI that is designed precisely to optimize humans as a "standing-reserve," or raw material.

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