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Workers need protection from expanding artificial intelligence
MICK WHITLEY MP is today introducing a Bill in Parliament that aims to secure a people-focused and democratic approach towards increased use of AI across the British economy
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: Ai-Da about to make history as the first robot to address the House of Lords: its speech explored the role of machine learning, machine creativity and Artificial Intelligence within the UK, October 11 2022
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
After battling hills, rain and injury in a three-day cycle ride ending at the CWU conference, MATT KERR reflects on why class unity remains the answer to injustice
Through marches, music, schools and political debate, campaigners in Tower Hamlets are using the 90th anniversary of Cable Street to inspire resistance to modern racism. GLYN ROBBINS explains
A lifelong communist and community organiser, Pinder helped shape anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in Britain while dedicating himself to youth work and collective struggle, writes David Horsley
ARTIFICIAL intelligence could have as wide-reaching and profound an impact on jobs as the first Industrial Revolution.
That was the warning issued by the government’s former chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, when he appeared before Parliament’s science and technology committee earlier this month.
Research commissioned by the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy suggests that 7 per cent of all British jobs could be automated out of existence within just five years as a result of AI.
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