Billionaires in Borrowed Costumes: How Silicon Valley Loots Science Fiction to Justify Its Power Grab
From Musk's Star Trek pitch to Pentagon generals to Palantir's Tolkien branding and terrifying manifesto, Silicon Valley has turned science ...
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Applicant Tracking Systems: The AI That Broke Hiring
Applicant Tracking Systems were built to solve a real problem - too many résumés, too little time. But somewhere between ...
Whistleblowing as a Shield: Protecting the Voices That Keep AI Safe
From OpenAI to Google, insiders who warn about unsafe AI face retaliation, not protection, revealing a dangerous gap between technological ...
Targeted by Design: Technoviolence, Xenophobia, and Algorithmic Injustice in SWANA
In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic ...
Capitalism, War, and the Violence of Digital Platforms: A Conversation with Geert Lovink
A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.
Breaking the Code of Silence: Workers Rights and Systemic Change in Tech – A Conversation with Ifeoma Ozoma
On retaliation, weak protections, and why defending tech workers’ rights is essential to confronting surveillance, militarisation, and corporate complicity in ...
Decolonizing AI at the Border: When Algorithms Decide Who Can Move
Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic ...
Automated Apartheid: How Palestinians Became the World’s Most Surveilled People
From AI checkpoints to facial recognition, Palestine is a testing ground for surveillance technologies later exported worldwide.
Silicon Pampa: How Milei’s Techno-Libertarian Dream Turns Argentina into a Data Colony for AI and Lithium
Milei’s ‘digital revolution’ turns Argentina into a playground for Big Tech and Big Mining at the expense of its people ...
Beyond Project Nimbus: How Silicon Valley Fuels Israel’s War Machine
As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting ...
When War Becomes a Tech Product: How Silicon Valley Logics are Reshaping Military AI
AI-driven weapons born from venture capital logics treat war as a beta test and failure as progress.
Invisible Systems, Endless Wars, and Hypermanned Killing Machines: Lisa Ling on AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Conflict
War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little ...
Automated Surveillance, Targeted Killings, and AI Warfare in Gaza: A Conversation with Khalil Dewan
From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a ...
Video: Decolonising AI
Three situated experiences of the development of AI technologies, challenging the language used to describe them, their inner functioning and ...
Reclaiming the future of technology through art, imagining, and lived experiences
Artists allapopp and Dinara Rasuleva discuss decolonizing technology and imagining futures rooted in migrant cultures.
What does decolonising AI really mean? An interview with artist Ameera Kawash
What does decolonizing AI really mean? What does it entail, and how can we implement it as a practice in ...
When AI tells our stories: navigating ethics in the digital tapestry of crisis
What are the ethical implications when artificial intelligence plays a role in documenting human experiences?
“I hope this isn’t for weapons.” How Syrian data workers train AI
The development and training of AI systems depend on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated ...
Less visible walls: how Europe (mis)uses AI at its borders and beyond
How migrants and asylum seekers, victims of Europe’s violations of human rights, are used as test subjects for tech experimentation
