New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, John Luther Adams
Necessary steps to regulate AI
JON BALDWIN recommends a well-informed survey of the ills promoted by AI tech corporations, and the measures needed to stop them exploiting us
THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF TECHNO-CAPITALISM: Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, California, September, 2016
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Banksy’s identity may have been published – but was the investigation in the public interest, asks PETER BENGTSEN
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us.
Gary Marcus, MIT Press, £16.99
How can we control the AI that is exploiting us?
Gary Marcus has provided a book that lists the problems, flaws, and threats of AI and what, considering these, our demands should be, and how we might meet them.
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