Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?

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• Title: Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
• ArXiv ID: 2512.24863
• Date: 2025-12-31
• Authors: Steven Bird

📝 Abstract

The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises which are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. Language engineers are playing a central role, persisting with a scalability story that is failing humanity, supplying critical talent to plutocrats and kleptocrats, and creating new technologies as if the whole endeavour was value-free. We urgently need to explore alternatives, applying our collective intelligence to design a lifeaffirming future for NLP that is centered on human flourishing on a living planet.

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