May the AI Gods Help UsWith Deepfake Porn and God Chatbots, AI Dystopia is Here Generative AI is worsening multiple socio-cultural crises, due to the false reliance on it as an 'unbiased' entity. By Hetvi Kamdar
Big Tech Big ConsequencesMassive, Impersonal Tech Layoffs Show How “Good Jobs” Need Unions Too The scale and manner of layoffs across big tech break the myth of the "good job" -- and shows the precarity of tech workers in a recession. By Akankshya Bahinipaty
Big Tech CheckGenerative AI Puts Us on the Brink of a Deepfakes Crisis Generative AI is an emerging paradigm in tech that makes the creation of deepfakes much easier -- and more monetizable. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
A Dystopian FixThe Science Fiction Writer Who Coined the Term ‘Metaverse’ Is Building His Own Neal Stephenson, who coined the term as a dystopic fiction, is trying to fix how tech brought it to life. Does it fix the inherent problems with the metaverse? By Amlan Sarkar
Not In It For the Long HaulHow ‘Longtermism’ Is Helping the Tech Elite Justify Ruining the World Almost like a secret pact holding tech adherents together, longtermism is a philosophy that aims to transcend the human condition altogether. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Artificial ImitationAn AI Rapper Perpetuated Racist Stereotypes, Showing How Tech Commodifies Culture AI people are ahistorical. To give them a race, a culture, and a vocabulary that's born out of a centuries-old history shows how AI tech can commodify human beings. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Chicken Soup For The Digital SoulWhat the ‘Soulless Zuckerberg’ Memes Say About Our Relationship With Tech Tech evokes coldness, simplicity, and detachment — and it rules much of our interactions with the world. Zuckerberg is an easy target for projecting collective disillusionment about this. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Manmade IntelligenceNew Experiment Shows Robots With Faulty AI Make Sexist, Racist Decisions Researchers note robots "have all the problems that software systems have, plus their embodiment adds the risk of causing irreversible physical harm." By Rohitha Naraharisetty