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AI and its discontents, with Decca Muldowney
Despite its documented dangers, algorithmic biases and dire environmental consequences, AI is being pushed into every corner of our lives. But who benefits from framing it this way – and at what cost?
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Mariam Barghouti opens her series from Ramallah by examining the Palestinian city's coffee boom and what it says about life under occupation
Italian arms factory workers say no to war
Building on a history of resistance to militarization, workers at Leonardo are organizing against the company’s complicity in the Gaza genocide.
The hidden reality of Italy's migrant domestic workers
Sofia Turati reveals gender-based violence and abuse against vulnerable workers – and the people fighting for their protection
The return of petro-imperialism
As the US militarizes the Caribbean, Colin Bogle speaks to the people speaking out, despite the muted response from their governments.
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Issue 560
AI: The People Behind the Machine
This Big Story explores the hidden realities behind the AI boom. We meet the workers in the Global South who keep AI running, travel across Pennsylvania to understand data center construction, find out about how autonomous weapons might change warfare, dig into the companies and motives behind the AI we’re being marketed, and ask what human creativity means amidst an onslaught of AI slop.