Tag Archives | AI (Artificial Intelligence)

AI is creating a bonanza for tech companies and is being cast as a cleaner way to wage war, but the human cost is devastating.

Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.

The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]

Could Artificial Intelligence render the university obsolete? Katy Hayward explores what is lost when human thought is made subordinate to the machine.

In the hands of corporations, the hidden costs of AI will continue to be paid by working people across the globe.

Nvidia’s brief streak as the world’s highest valued company in the last several weeks has catapulted the chipset manufacturer into the headlines all over the world. A year ago, Nvidia was valued at just under $1 trillion. Nine months later, it blew past the $2 trillion mark, and just 30 days after that, for a moment in June 2024 Nvidia peaked at $3.3 trillion.

This problem, it must be noted, relates exclusively to the application of AI under capitalist conditions; but, capitalism being the reality over much of the world, the threat of AI to the working people remains extremely serious.

A NEW AI (Artificial Intelligence) model, AlphaFold3, has excited the scientific community.