Strategically, ­these dystopic ai conversations also obviate that it continues to be corporations rather than magical machines amassing technocapitalist power and reanimating decades-­old computing techniques. In the words of Meredith Whittaker and Lucy Suchman, “The term ‘artificial intelligence’ is widely recognized by researchers as less a technically precise descriptor than an aspirational proj­ect that comprises a growing collection of data-­centric technologies.”107 In this sense, conversations about the ai boom fictionalize that something new is at play rather than acknowledge that companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook are continuing to amass computation power even if masqueraded in openness.