Interview: Meet the Mental Health Podcaster Sounding the Alarm on AI
Harriet Williamson
Novara Media spoke to Mollie Adler about how entire industries are being built around collecting, sorting and monetising our inner worlds.
Tag: artificial intelligence
Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims
Harriet Williamson
Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.
Novara FM: What’s Next for AI Now It’s Ingested the Entire Internet?
From climate politics to creating art, there's still much to be decided about the future that AI portends, says Disintegrator co-host Marek Poliks.
Analysis: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Actually That Amazing
James Meadway
Computer software that can hold a conversation may have seemed magical, but it wasn't the start of something new, writes James Meadway. It was AI already at its summit, with nowhere to go but down.
Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Creative Workers Too
Aaron Bastani
Creatives thought they were safe from AI, but news that Hollywood producers have refused to accept writers’ demands for constraints on its use shows they are not, writes Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears
James Meadway
As long as profit is allowed to drive developments in fintech, the risks of catastrophic overreach remains, writes James Meadway.
Report: AI Border Guards are Being Tested at the Edge of Fortress Europe, Away From Public Scrutiny
Robbie Warin
Funded by the EU to the tune of €4.5 million, months of trials ending this summer using AI lie-detecting technology are being kept away from public scrutiny.
Are You Gonna Go Huawei? 5G and the Rise of AI Nationalism
James Meadway
The recent row over the future of 5G in Britain has shone a spotlight on Huawei, and it's no coincidence questions concerning technology are underpinning the US-China trade dispute. James Meadway explains what debates over 5G and artificial intelligence ought to tell us about the state of global capitalism.
The Chilling Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
RJ Quinn
Increasing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace is forcing people to police themselves more than ever, argues RJ Quinn.
Choice: Break up Facebook – or Take It Into Public Ownership? I Am Not Kidding
Paul Mason
The emerging scandal over Facebook's role in the manipulation of user data raises questions over the future of tech giants that hold massive amounts of our information. So how do we solve a problem like Facebook?