Marty Hart-Landsberg

There are signs the AI threat is helping to grow a resistance which could dramatically transform the political landscape, writes Martin Hart-Landsberg.

Marty Hart-Landsberg cuts through the fog of AI hype to outline some of the dangers we face from AI use and highlight avenues of effective resistance.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — Tech billionaires and the Trump administration, with the apparent support of most of the capitalist class, are betting big on artificial intelligence. But this is a losing bet for us.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — We need to seize the moment and begin building organized labor-community resistance to the unchecked development and deployment of AI systems.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — We can create more modest AI systems that assist workers and support socially beneficial work. But that is not the road corporations want to take.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — The uncritical and rapidly increasing adoption of AI systems by schools, businesses, the media, and the military represents a serious threat to our collective well-being. We need to push back, and push back hard, against this big tech offensive.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — The AI craze has gone on long enough for us to start drawing some plausible conclusions about where it is leading.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — If we want a sustainable and equitable economic system, we are going to have to overcome capitalist imperatives and develop the organizations and institutions that will allow us to directly build it.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — There is a lot of talk lately about the federal budget, with Democrats and Republicans arguing over whether to raise the debt ceiling. But you know what they never argue about: financing the military.