Gig Economy
Rob Lucas – Unlearning Machines
A review of Matteo Pasquinelli’s new book, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Technology
Solutions
Evgeny Morozov – The Santiago Boys
The Santiago Boys is a nine-part podcast about a group of radical utopians around Salvador Allende, Chile’s socialist president. Undeterred by the Cold War and machinations of their enemies and aided by an eccentric British consultant, […]
EU politics
Politico: EU looks to ban companies from making sensitive tech in China
The European Commission has published plans to follow almost to the word the aggressive economic policy of the United States towards China. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Joan Torrent-Sellens: Artificial intelligence and market power: a dangerous alliance for jobs (and democracy)
There are signs that highly concentrated economic power in an age of AI is leading to destructive social outcomes Joan Torrent-Sellens is professor of economics and business studies at UOC – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. […]
Finance
Clément Le Ludec, Maxime Cornet: How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions
A case study in neo-colonial economic relationships: Madagascan workers get paid a pittance to make French ‘artificial intelligence’ intelligent Clément Le Ludec is in the sociology of digital technology department at Télécom Paris – Institut […]