Tag: AI
Podcast: Mourning, Mobilizing, and New Forms of Labor Resistance
Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles with Sarah Jaffe.
Pope Issued Global Call to “Disarm AI”
“To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.”
US Law Enforcement Prepares for “Anti-Tech” Unrest
Internal intelligence reports reveal a quiet shift in the US surveillance apparatus toward growing protests against data centers and AI technologies.
Samsung Union Puts Strike on Hold as Members Vote on Draft Agreement
Management and union leadership struck a tentative agreement only 90 minutes before a mass walkout. Now, workers will decide if it is good enough.
“The Robot Helps, But It’s Not the Same as Someone Staying:” AI, Aging, and the New Frontline of Emotional Labor in China
Two marionettes are directed by robotic arms in this art piece using creative robotics. CC Florian Voggeneder Link copied! Every afternoon around four o’clock, Mr. […]
Nemo Smith: Democracy Hijacked
Nemo Smith is not an average politician. He is, in fact, the precise average of all UK politicians. As an algorithm-generated political figure, Smith and his persona are based on the campaigns of British politicians and parties.
Mapping the Planetary Costs of AI: Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI in Review
The very first thing to do when even considering employing AI is to look at the power infrastructure that produces it and makes its existence possible in the first place. As Crawford notes, AI is the result of extracting human life through data, raw materials, and labor.
A Hidden History and a Feminist Future: Redesigning the Role of Women in Technology
In general, when a field starts to have an economic value, the tendency of the capitalist system is to try to obtain a monopoly over it. And this is one of the major reasons why women were excluded from computer science.
The Master’s Tools
A society cannot be free unless its technologies support a free and democratic social life. As the black feminist Audre Lorde noted, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
Infocalypse or Cultural Renaissance? The Two Faces of Generative AI
The year 2023 marked a cultural revolution of a sort. For millions of people, artificial intelligence has become a part of everyday life and consciousness, shaping the way we understand and imagine our interactions and societies.