Thank you for the input, I agree that they at least seem closely coupled. But on a system level these systems are different and are producing very different results.
Do we then think this could have been developed anywhere in the capitalist West just as well?
Is not the logic of what sort of things labor power is used on and what projects get implemented affected by the system a product is made in? Would this startup get funded in a capitalist country and is it based on profit as much as the ones we have here? Why is the financial grift missing from the final numbers.
As a sidenote "putting things in boxes" is the very thing that itself upholds bourgeois democracies and national boundaries as well.
I think this distinction is interesting because if the product of AI is classification it is just a more abstract method of continuing to do the very thing we have been doing for a long time with other statistical methods that fragment data into sets of whatever we wish to draw boundaries to. Essentially it sounds like intensified and far more depersonalized categorizing.