technology

Resistance to the AI offensive is clearly needed. Marty Hart-Landsberg contends it will have to be a resistance with muscle developed through strong organising and alliance building.

Is Pax Silica an innocuous agreement for economic cooperation or an instrument of domination? To understand what it is meant to accomplish, Nicholas considers the context from which it emerges.

The robots are not taking over. But, as Rezgar Akrawi explains, we are facing a different model of digital control, one that leaves us all further subject to systems, corporations and intelligent machines.

Gandipan Nantha Gopalan asks: what are Malaysians getting for providing land, electricity, water, infrastructure and incentives to promote data centre investments?

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

Michael Roberts breaks down the rise in global corporate profits that has accompanied the recent AI boom.

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.

Rezgar Akrawi sketch out the contours of a left-wing vision of digital liberation, addressing this struggle’s most important fronts.

Writing from prison, Boris Kagarlitsky engages with Yanis Varoufakis’s account of the transformations that have taken place in the economy and society as a result of new technologies.

Paulo Antunes Ferreira makes the case for why we need to urgently dismantle the neoliberal algorithmic dictatorship of techno-oligarchs.

Pax Silica is a US-led drive to secure control over semiconductors, AI and critical minerals. The Philippines will lose out if it becomes a military-industrial node within this project, writes Reihana Mohideen.

Ketan Joshi discusses the climate impacts of Big Tech and data centres, the possibility of “green AI” and whether the AI bubble will ever pop.