Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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AI and Education: The Kids are in Danger
Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, are pushing hard to get them into public schools as well as colleges and … Keep reading »
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Soft Surveillance and Control: AI as a Tool of Gradual and Deep Political Repression
Digital Surveillance and Control Digital corporations, in collaboration with major powers, actively monitor individuals’ movements through smart devices and various communication tools. Virtually all digital activities – including supposedly secure private … Keep reading »
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Control at Work in the Age of AI /w Nicole Aschoff
This is the 2025 edition of the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education’s annual winter lecture! We are overjoyed to be welcoming Nicole Aschoff to deliver this year’s lecture. This … Watch video »
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Exposing the Big Con: The False Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell artificial intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been … Keep reading »
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The AI Craze
Are you one of those loudly demanding that companies create AI-powered systems to amuse you on Facebook, be your online sexual partner, offer therapy 24-7, provide answers to your search … Keep reading »
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AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write stories. … Keep reading »
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Automating Creativity? Questioning AI’s Impact on the Arts
Dr. Tanner Mirrlees’s keynote for Hot Docs Teachers’ Conference on the topic of generative AI and automation in the creative industries and higher education. The keynote focuses on the disruption … Watch video »
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Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits
When asked to share alternatives to capitalism, ChatGPT offered many options, none of which rely on the fantasy that money hoarding at the top can eventually benefit the rest of us. Keep reading »
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SR 2021: Interpretation Machines /w Larry Lohmann
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain … Watch video »
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Post-Capitalist Futures? Work After Automation
Widespread social concern about potentially negative consequences of technological automation for workers is nothing new. Since the era of early industrialism, commentators and economists have mused about the potentially damaging … Keep reading »