The Guardian • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Issue #2199
Xi speaks on AI development
Chinese President Xi Jinping has presented four observations on artificial intelligence (AI) development and governance while addressing the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI...
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Issue #2107
LETTERS
Dear Editor, I regret to say my letter is of a very negative tone, but I think it’s justifiable in the light of my extremely...
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Issue #2166
The AI con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want
This September, Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, claimed “a kid born today will never be smarter than AI ever.” A couple of days...
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Issue #2130
Capitalism, AI, and class
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the face of the world. Like all transformations and ‘revolutions’ in society that capitalism has wrought, AI...
Read moreOP-ED: Anthropic are not the good guys
Is there an ethical way to do AI? People looking for one might prefer a company that won’t work with the US government’s ‘Department of...
Read moreElon Musk undoing Tesla benefits with AI power plants
If you’re still using the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, you probably know that there’s an AI service attached, called...
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Issue #2186
African Intelligence: The hidden exploitation behind AI
AI tools and platforms are often touted as bringers of automation. Companies discussing AI focus the conversation on digital elements such as machine learning, data...
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Issue #2140
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: A Paris court has sentenced right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term for embezzlement, half of which is without parole. Le...
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Issue #2180
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UN: United Nations experts on human rights issued a joint statement on 12 February condemning the Executive Order signed by US President Trump on 29...
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Issue #2199
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: Twenty-nine countries have signed an agreement in Shanghai on establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO). The organisation will be an independent international...
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Issue #2105
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: Biden promised to designate Kenya as the USA’s first “major non-NATO ally” in sub-Saharan Africa as Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Washington for...
Read moreAI Blackface: an exercise in cannibalistic colonialism
Keagan John Mason, a South African online content creator based in New Zealand, has created channels across Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram using an AI-generated caricature...
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Issue #2176
Australia’s AI plan: the digital enclosure
The original enclosures happened when rich landowners in Britain ‘enclosed’ and made private land that had been available for common use, thus making ordinary people...
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Issue #2190
Atlas of AI
This is a book warning us that artificial intelligence, like all the other capitalist innovations in the past, is not for the benefit of humanity,...
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Issue #2160
GREEN NOTES
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) warns of a growing and serious impact on climate. That is the rapid, unregulated expansion of AI data centres including...
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Issue #2179
PEACE NOTES
High probability of failure (AUKUS) Comments from retired rear admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy with the UK Ministry of Defence, have...
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Issue #2200
AI and your job
As a worker are you worried about “AI” taking your job? Or are you worried about your boss drastically reducing your work hours after you...
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Issue #2192
AI is coming for your job, and the budget is paying
The latest federal budget has a clear message for Australian workers: your labour is disposable, but tech billionaires are essential. While the Treasurer found nothing...
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Issue #2199
A Marxist reading of ‘Digital Fordism’
‘Fordism’ refers to the assembly lines developed by Ford, in which each worker performed just one simple task over and over again. Factory and warehouse...
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Issue #2166
AI and automation
The social debates around Artificial Intelligence (AI) are raging on around us daily. Different forms of AI are regularly appearing in our daily lives. Some...
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Issue #2169
DINGO
Did you ever write to an MP or a Senator and get an oily answer back very quickly? If so, you’ll be aware that these...
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Issue #2144
GREEN NOTES
Energy-hungry data centres are among the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is at the heart of one of the most...
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Issue #2166
GREEN NOTES
AI data centres in the United States are expanding at an unprecedented rate, powering everything from ChatGPT to autonomous vehicles. Most of the world’s 8,000...
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Issue #2140
Four keywords on China-WA relations
In March 2025, significant events unfolded in both China and WA. In the Northern Hemisphere spring, China’s Two Sessions concluded successfully, sounding a clarion call...
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Issue #2160
DINGO
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has welcomed the acknowledgment by technology companies of the rights of Australia’s media and creative workforce and willingness...
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Issue #2198
DINGO
The federal government is being urged to respond to a feasibility study on options to limit unhealthy food marketing, as new Australian Institute of Health...
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Issue #2194
Data centre boom risks 26% jump in power prices
Data centre boom risks 26% jump in power prices A surge in Australian data centre construction driven by AI risks pushing up power bills and...
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Issue #2186
DINGO
The Health Services Union (HSU) is calling on governments and employers to deliver immediate, targeted relief for health, aged care and disability workers during Australia’s...
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Issue #2167
AI ‘slop’ on top of pain
Consulting firm Deloitte has been in the news because of a report they completed for $440,000 on the ‘targeted compliance framework.’ That’s the system the...
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Issue #2187
WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
FIGHT GENOCIDE, WAR, AND EXPLOITATION May Day was born in struggle, forged in the fight for the eight-hour day and won through the sacrifice of...
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Issue #2171
DINGO
The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has welcomed new Australian content requirements for major streaming services, describing the announcement as a vital lifeline for...
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Issue #2201
Qantas AI job cuts
The Australian Services Union (ASU) says that in briefing calls on news reports Qantas claims that there are no plans for jobs to be lost...
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Issue #2163
Banks slash jobs
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) says NAB’s decision to cut 410 jobs just a day after ANZ axed 3,500 proves banks are moving in lockstep...
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Issue #2191
Automation is a class issue
Warren Smith Deputy national secretary Maritime Union of Australia, MUA Dear comrade, The Communist Party of Australia stands in solidarity with the Maritime Union of...
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Issue #2199
Doubts over Albo’s AI jobs boom
Prime Minister Albanese has made a major speech about AI. The speech has been welcomed by the lobby group Data Centres Australia, but Albo’s fine...
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