technology

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Tanuro — The threats of AI underline the urgency of a revolutionary, ecosocialist break with the civilisation of capitalist growth.

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.

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.