Lecture for Transart Institute. Abstract: The title employs a popular and deliberately ambiguous connective ‘x’, at once a substitute for ‘and’, ‘loves’, ‘multiplies’, and a reference to the much-maligned social media platform owned by a big-tech billionaire. It signals the complexities involved when seemingly divergent entities are brought together in this way. By pairing AI and fascism, the talk traces historical connections between aesthetics and politics; from Walter Benjamin’s artwork essay, written amid rising fascism in Europe to alt-right meme cultures of the present. When it comes to AI, we might broadly claim that it reproduces fascist-like tendencies as it concentrates power in centralised infrastructures, is founded on extractive logic, and is owned by powerful elites who believe that access to power is their divine right. But AI isn’t inherently fascist, and can it be imagined differently?