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BAPPA SINHA assesses the way AI is being used to undermine social security rights in India
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ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
SOME of the most prominent AI startups, tech companies, their executives, researchers and engineers would have us believe that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.
Beneath the self-serving hype of rogue super-intelligent AI models (the current models are nowhere close to approaching human-like intelligence), the AI models pushed by governments pursuing aggressive neoliberal agendas and monopoly corporate interests are harming society and humanity in far more mundane ways, often targeting the poor, and ethnic and religious minorities.
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