Tag: Science and Technology

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.

On art in the age of generative AI.

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.