Tag: Science and Technology

The seductions of medical surveillance.

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

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.

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

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.