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WHY

eight reasons, none of them a manifesto.

the reasons

  1. infrastructure is care

    The cable that is plugged in, the backup that has been restored once, the machine that is still on at three in the morning: that is where care shows, and it counts as much as any lecture. The bridge matters as much as what crosses it.

  2. socialise AI

    Everyone who uses AI also works for AI — trains it, refines it, provides its data. So it is only fair to ask that AI should belong to everyone who works it. AI should be socialised.Hito Steyerl, accepting the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize — Ars Electronica, Linz, 10 Sep 2026; lightly condensed from the recording

    We take her at her word at the scale of one school: the people who feed the machines own them, read their logs, and decide when they are off.

  3. a ceiling in the first sentence

    A pilot that does not say, in its first sentence, how much it may spend and for how many, grows until it starves the teaching it was meant to serve. Every service we offer states its ceiling first. No capacity is claimed that has not been load-tested.

  4. students as residents

    Not students of a course: residents of a place. They develop their own projects; the group works a project alongside them; the infrastructure is what they share. Ten seats this autumn: Tue 29 Sep → Fri 23 Oct 2026, Grupperom 3, AHO.

  5. a GPU per person

    Not a frontier model per person: one GPU per person. A machine you can point at, that is off when you say so, whose logs you can read. The future, evenly distributed.

  6. the school's own machines before anyone's cloud

    Fourteen recycled iMacs in a classroom, a card or two under a desk, open weights. The cloud comes second, in a room inside the EU, for what must be big — and it too says its ceiling first.

  7. existential, not only instrumental

    AI unlocks when it meets a person's own interest — something small, then something bigger. Nobody can promise the unlock or say when it comes; what a school can do is build its preconditions and study, out loud, where it leads. The student with no hand up is the interesting case.

  8. the fault is the useful half

    In Kristiansand only six of ten groups filled, because a fallback quietly sent the overflow into the fullest one. We say so. A green light is not a proof, and a room trusts the fault more than the success.