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Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

October 12, 2026 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. , , ,
Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an article in CNN points out how AI is helping Princeton scientists solve “a key problem” with fusion energy. AI that can translate text to audio and audio to text is making information more accessible. Many digital tasks can be done faster using this technology. However, any advantages that AI may promise are eclipsed by the cataclysmic dangers of this controversial new technology. Humanity has a narrow chance to stop a technological revolution whose unintended negative consequences will vastly outweigh any short-term benefits.

White House Pressures US Firms To Skip Paris Space Summit

September 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The White House has urged several US space firms not to attend an upcoming summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, warning that showing up at the Grand Palais gathering could be read as an “endorsement” of EU policy, POLITICO reported on 2 September. A White House official from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) privately delivered the message to firms including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra, according to two industry representatives and a congressional staffer who described the call to POLITICO on condition of anonymity. 

The Transnational Technocratic Machine: Class War Behind The Flags

August 30, 2026 Gloria Guillo, Tortilla con Sal. , , ,
The story sold to populations is that the United States, China, Russia, and Iran are locked in geopolitical rivalry, each building separate military-industrial systems to confront the others. That narrative conceals the deeper structure. The weapons carry national markings. The technological base that makes them possible does not. Semiconductors, sensors, power electronics, microcontrollers, RF components, machine tools, and industrial equipment move through the same global commercial networks. Components pass through distributors, brokers, front companies, and third countries before they appear in missiles, drones, radar, or electronic-warfare systems on every side.

Interconnected Technologies Of Racialized Fascist Domination

July 24, 2026 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
GEO Group, the private prison company operating the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall, represents the merging of state responsibilities and private capital that is the hallmark of the fascist governing logic of crisis-ridden, late-stage capitalism. This stage of monopoly capital, confronting the irreconcilable contradictions embedded in its own structure, requires that all pretense of a commitment to the values and practices of liberal democracy—championed by elements of the Enlightenment bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the height of its ascendancy in Europe—be jettisoned as a burden to the continued hegemony of capitalist rule.

Cloud, Platforms, And Search Engines Are Public-Interest Institutions

June 28, 2026 Cecilia Rikap, Kirsten Van Gestel, and Klara Ledroit, Transform Network. , , ,
Today, US tech giants increasingly capture and profit from knowledge, research, and technologies produced in European universities and public institutions. The result is a deepening digital dependency: the European Union relies on foreign-owned platforms that control not only our data, but also the way we communicate, work, think and, ultimately, live our lives. For economist Cecilia Rikap, Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London (IIPP-UCL), this dependency is not merely economic: it is also a democratic issue.

Apple Bought A Sinister ‘Pre-Speech’ Tech Company Implicated In Genocide

February 16, 2026 Nate Bear, Scheer Post. , , , , , ,
Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. And Apple has paid this money, the second-biggest deal in its history, for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website is a single page containing 15 words. The company, Q.ai, is developing sensors which map the imperceptible movements of a human face to determine the words someone is thinking before they’re spoken. They call it silent speech. Or pre-speech.

Amazon’s Robot Revolution

January 13, 2026 Luis Feliz Leon, Portside. , , ,
In 2018, Garfield Hylton became a picker at Amazon’s BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, a city in the English Midlands. BHX4 is the first stop in a product’s journey through Amazon’s distribution network. It’s a holding facility close to ports and railyards; workers there break down bulk shipments to be distributed to fulfillment centers, where orders are stored, picked, packed, and shipped. Hylton was one of about 2,000 workers at the warehouse, supplying tens of millions of items each year to the United Kingdom and Europe. The facility, less than ten miles from two major highways and the Birmingham Airport, had once been an auto manufacturing plant—a Jaguar factory that closed in 2004, resulting in the loss of 2,000 union jobs.

The Overshoot Presidency And The State Of Climate Politics

November 17, 2025 Alberto Toscano, In These Times. , , , ,
Ahead of this November’s Cop30 climate summit, to be held in Belém, Brazil — the gateway to the Amazon River — United Nations Secretary General António Guterres delivered a stark statement: ​“Let’s recognize our failure. The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5 degrees [Celsius] in the next few years. And that going above 1.5 degrees has devastating consequences.” Guterres’s remarks came just as Hurricane Melissa was making landfall in Jamaica as one of the most powerful Atlantic basin storms in recorded history. And it came after a year of other grim milestones: the devastating wildfires that struck Los Angeles in January and Canada in May, lethal flash floods from Argentina to Texas and heatwaves in India and Pakistan that brought temperatures up to 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit), leading to crop failures.

Artificial Intelligence: Principles To Protect Workers

October 19, 2025 AFL-CIO, Portside. , , ,
There is a path where new technology makes work better and safer, with good union jobs that have fair pay and better job quality. In this vision, working people have economic security, knowing that companies and public agencies must follow rules to make sure technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) is used safely, responsibly, and fairly. These rules put people first, and include worker input in the research and development (R&D) process, during development and deployment, and at the collective bargaining table where they negotiate protections with employers. There is accountability with meaningful enforcement so that employers think twice before designing or using AI systems that hurt workers or communities.

Avoiding The AI Hypetrain

September 12, 2025 Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
I have to admit, I do find it a bit amusing to watch someone climb onboard a hypetrain at the exact moment that said train is hurtling off a cliff. It does spoil the fun though, when that someone is an apex organization for the national coopererative movement. Unfortunately, that's what it felt like last week when I happened upon a video of NCBA CLUSA's most recent Co-op Circle Happy Hour. The topic for the event was "Cooperatives on AI, Data, and Democracy"; and the first 10 minutes consisted of a presentation by NCBA's Senior Director of Information Technology about ways that co-ops can use "AI." I put "AI" in scare-quotes because that term covers a broad range of tools that have very little, if anything, in common with each other.

Silicon Valley Insider Exposes Cult-Like AI Companies

September 3, 2025 Aaron Bastani, Scheer Post. , , ,
As artificial intelligence begins to fundamentally alter the way normal people live their lives, it’s often talked about in terms of boom and doom, which makes a nuanced examination difficult. The problem with AI is that the understanding required to scrutinise the technology is rare and even if one does have that understanding, the ability to clearly communicate it is even rarer. This week’s guest has been both a worker in, and reporter on the tech industry and is uniquely poised to present a nuanced and informed analysis of this rapidly expanding industry. In her new book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao debunks myths that surround AI and exposes us to the full breadth of this global industry.

Workers’ Intifada Against Microsoft

August 30, 2025 Jim McMahan, Workers World. , , , , , ,
As the United Nations’ world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrators protested war profiteer Microsoft, whose technology is used to aid the U.S./Israeli war, which is committing genocide in Gaza. After months of protests in Seattle, on Aug. 20 and 21 worker-led activists took the struggle to Microsoft’s vast campus in Redmond, Washington, where No Azure for Apartheid and Bilyad Seattle exposed Microsoft’s complicity. On Aug. 20, around 35 current and former Microsoft workers and solidarity activists set up a protest encampment on the East Campus Plaza of Microsoft. They claimed it as the Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza. They left when Microsoft asked them to leave, but returned the next day and declared their occupation is not going anywhere!

The Importance Of Network Protocols For Commoning And Open Markets

August 2, 2025 David Bollier. , , ,
Most of us don’t give much thought to the arcane technical protocols that make the Internet and its various platforms work. Yet these invisible architectures of code profoundly affect how we can interact with others. They determine what sorts of information we can receive and even how our worldviews and identities are shaped. Sometimes tech protocols empower us to govern ourselves as commoners and freely collaborate with each other. Think open source software, wikis, and collaborative websites. More typically, network protocols are used to create closed, proprietary corporate platforms that turn us into dependent consumers and victims of data-surveillance.

What It’s Like To Work At A Tech Worker Co-op

July 22, 2025 Catalyst Cooperative, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) and help clients navigate a myriad of energy or environmental data needs. We filmed this interview to help researchers or coop-curious individuals learn more about what it's like working at a tech cooperative.

Pentagon Using Fabricated Chinese Threat To Build GE Soldiers

May 15, 2025 Kit Klraenberg, MintPress News. , , ,
On April 8, a bipartisan commission chartered by Congress warned that China is rapidly advancing a terrifying new military threat: genetically engineered “super soldiers.” The report by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) urges the U.S. to respond with a sweeping effort to militarize biotechnology. It offers little concrete evidence that such Chinese programs even exist. In the name of national security, Washington is now pushing for deregulation, massive government investment, and human experimentation. Experts say this effort echoes Cold War-era paranoia and threatens to erode ethical boundaries in science and warfare.
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