Tag: Technology

Gary Wilson – Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery

Link to an article by Gary Wilson:

“Tech Bosses Cut Nearly 150,000 Workers as Profits Pour into AI Machinery”

Bonus links: Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “$9 Trillion Collapse Machine” and “Rogue Nation Tries to Scuttle US – Iran Deal, AI Will End the West” (“Tech companies in the West are scrambling to exploit the momentum built for AI before it becomes widely apparent that Generative AI is a seriously flawed product that has been sold to people who do not understand how it works.”) and “No Path Forward, No Way Back—Imperial Decline Edition” and “Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”

Wolfgang Messner – Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?

Link to an article by Wolfgang Messner:

“Is AI Sparking a Cognitive Revolution That Will Lead to Mediocrity and Conformity?”

Bonus links: “You Are Having Fun” and “Soft Surveillance and Control: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression in the Service of Contemporary Capitalist Hegemony” and “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”

Hamish van der Ven – AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption

Link to an article by Hamish van der Ven:

“AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption”

Bonus links: “What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War” and “MSM Bias on Russian Tanker & US Sanctions” and “Inescapable AI” and “Microsoft Won’t Save the Planet” and “Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers” and “Want an AI Data Center in Your City? Sure, But First Sign this Non-disclosure Agreement.” and “The High-Tech Poorhouse” and Mathwashing

Martin Hart-Landsberg – AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality

Link to an article by Martin Hart-Landsberg:

“AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality”

 

Bonus links: “AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are” and “The Hidden Costs of the AI Boom” and “AI is Bad for the Environment, and the Problem is Bigger Than Energy Consumption”

Prabir Purkayastha – Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly and the Rent Economy

Link to an except from the book Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology by Prabir Purkayastha:

“Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly and the Rent Economy”

 

Bonus links: Mertonian Norms and “In Final Declaration, G77 Rejects ‘Digital Monopolies’ and Calls for ‘Reform’ of the Financial System”

Sonali Kolhatkar – Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits

Link to an article by Sonali Kolhatkar:

“Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits”

 

(isn’t interest in A.I. primarily that of a fantasy of legal slavery?)

Bonus links: “The Dystopian AI Future Some Fear Is the Present-Day Reality Others Live” and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation and “No Path Forward, No Way Back—Imperial Decline Edition”