Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmember Greg Casar announced plans last week to introduce a bill permanently banning the development of superintelligent AI and temporarily pausing advanced AI resear…
A new survey from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found that opposition to local data centers jumped 12 points in four months, from 49% in March to 61% in July, while a…
A Jacobin essay argues that artificial intelligence should be placed under social ownership to serve public purposes, proposing purpose trusts as a more pluralistic alternative to government control. …
Industrial policy has returned to prominence in advanced capitalist countries, but without working-class power to discipline capital, it risks becoming public money flowing to private profit, accordin…
A new Cold War narrative is being embraced by Silicon Valley elites as a shield against regulation, according to a report. The story gained prominence after Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former…
Google's $15 billion AI data center project in Andhra Pradesh, India, has displaced 51 Dalit farming families in Tarluvada, who were compensated 8 million rupees ($83,848) each but say they had little…
A $1 trillion capital investment by Big Tech companies since the start of the artificial-intelligence boom has been directed into data centers, chips, and energy systems, despite AI not being profitab…
A new US intelligence document warns of potential 'anti-tech violent extremist activity' targeting data centers, but critics argue this framing unfairly silences legitimate opposition to AI infrastruc…
AI is a weapon of class war designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power, and nationalizing it would not change that, argues a socialist critique of Bernie Sanders's proposal to half-nationalize bi…
A Jacobin contributor argues that nationalizing AI firms, as proposed by Bernie Sanders, is insufficient without democratizing control over the technology's development and use. The author warns that …
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed requiring AI providers to hand over 50% of their stock to a US sovereign wealth fund, a plan that critics have misunderstood or opposed on weak grounds, according t…
Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism's tendency to replace labor with machines can illuminate how AI adoption may unfold, according to an essay examining the Marxist perspective on artificial intelligen…
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed nationalizing half the stock of major AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund for the American people, arguing that AI wealth must benefit humanity because i…
Semiconductor workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea won significant contract gains after a credible strike threat this spring, securing the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bo…
Tech billionaires have built AI by exploiting humanity's collective creative output, and the public deserves ownership and control over AI, not just compensation. Bernie Sanders' proposal for a 50% ta…
AI hype is being used by companies as a cover to replace stable employment with precarious gig work, according to research and interviews. The trend accelerates gigification as laid-off tech workers t…
A commentator argues that artificial intelligence should be nationalized because the technology was built using the collective work of humanity and poses a massive social and economic liability. The a…
Vivek Chibber argues that artificial intelligence is unlikely to cause permanent mass unemployment, but without state action and class struggle, automation will deepen inequality. He notes that past t…
Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow argues that the real danger of AI is not job replacement but the speculative bubble built on convincing employers to replace workers with systems that …