AI, Jordan Peterson’s Fight Club and the Alt-Right.

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Jordan Peterson, the divisive and controversial clinical psychology professor from the University of Toronto, turned political activist is hoping to harness the power of AI to police and intimidate his ideological opponents. This popular and polarizing YouTuber is fundraising upwards of $50 000 a month to create an AI system with the potential to troll the internet for ideological views counter to his own. According to Peterson’s twisted logic, this is necessary to counter the impending threat of post-modern neo-Marxists that he thinks and feels have the potential to create another Maoist-Stalinist state-sponsored murdering machine. You may think Peterson sounds overly paranoid but think again. The guy’s house, located in a quiet neighbourhood in Toronto is plastered with propaganda posters from Stalin’s and Mao’s campaigns. This father and grandfather claims that they are reminders that this threat is omnipresent. I don’t know about you, but most fathers and grandfathers I know adorn their walls with family pictures and kid’s drawings, with the odd Snap-On calendar in their garage or workshop. So there is obviously something else going on beneath the surface of this clinical psychologist turned political activist.