technology
Techno-oligarchs are using social media to normalise fascism
Paulo Antunes Ferreira makes the case for why we need to urgently dismantle the neoliberal algorithmic dictatorship of techno-oligarchs.
AI, industrial sovereignty and Pax Silica
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.
AI data centres are fuelling climate destruction
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.
Palantir’s ‘The Technological Republic’: A digital fascist manifesto
Palantir’s manifesto reveals we face a new form of fascism whose tools of violence and repression are algorithms, big data and AI, writes Rezgar Akrawi.
AI and the economy: A losing bet for working people
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.
Theses for an ecosocialist critique of artificial intelligence
Daniel Tanuro — The threats of AI underline the urgency of a revolutionary, ecosocialist break with the civilisation of capitalist growth.
Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains — it’s powering them
Benjamin Selwyn argues that geopolitical rivalries have stimulated the development of advanced technologies which in turn then have helped to shape global supply chains.
Rezgar Akrawi — AI must be directed to serve as a tool for the liberation and respect of human rights, not for their restriction or violation.
It’s time to confront big tech’s AI offensive
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.
No, you aren’t hallucinating, the corporate plan for AI is dangerous
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.
Exposing the big con: The false promise of Artificial Intelligence
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.
