The rapid deployment of new data centres to power artificial intelligence systems, such as chatbots and generative AI, has enormous and possibly damaging implications for energy systems and the climate, argues Isaac Nellist.
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Warren Smith, from the Maritime Union of Australia, said DP World’s push to automate its container terminal operations at four terminals across the country is a union-busting exercise. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Josef Benedict is a researcher covering the Asia Pacific region for the CIVICUS Monitor, a publication of the CIVICUS global civil society alliance that is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. He spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle on March 3.
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Right-wing led protests this weekend across Mexico were a bizarre attempt to copy-paste recent uprisings and protests in Nepal, the Philippines and Indonesia and were conjured up from AI campaigns, bots and influencers, not real social movements, writes Tamara Pearson.
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I lost my Facebook account because I dared to do something apparently unthinkable: I spoke up as a Jewish person who cares about children in Gaza, writes Michael Cohen.
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Hundred heads of state and gurus of the digital industries, such as Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are gathering in Paris to promote the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, prompting Éric Sadin to organise a counter summit. He explains why.