%0 Electronic Article %A Ali, Mustafa, Syed %I Wiley-Blackwell %D 2019 %G English %@ 1467-9744 %T "White Crisis" and/as "Existential Risk," or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence %J Zygon %V 54 %N 1 %P 207-224 %U http://oro.open.ac.uk/59076/1/White%20Crisis%20and-as%20Existential%20Risk%20-%20SM.%20Ali%20-%20PRE-PUBLICATION%20VERSION.pdf %U https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zygo.12498 %U https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12498 %X In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race-religion nexus. Building on earlier work, I explore the phenomenon of existential risk associated with Apocalyptic AI in relation to "White Crisis," a modern racial phenomenon with premodern religious origins. Adopting a critical race theoretical and decolonial perspective, I argue that all three phenomena are entangled and they should be understood as a strategy, albeit perhaps merely rhetorical, for maintaining white hegemony under nonwhite contestation. I further suggest that this claim can be shown to be supported by the disclosure of continuity through change in the long-durée entanglement of race and religion associated with the establishment, maintenance, expansion, and refinement of the modern/colonial world system if and when such phenomena are understood as iterative shifts in a programmatic trajectory of domination which might usefully be framed as "algorithmic racism."