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Issue No. 359 (2024/2)
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COVER:
AI: Promise and Pitfalls
AI:
Promise and pitfalls
An introduction
AI
will not save the South
By Cédric Leterme
Artificial
intelligence technology has been held out as a solution to many of the
challenges facing the developing countries but, given the current functioning
of the digital economy, may only end up reinforcing their marginalisation.
Who
learns and who profits in the era of AI?
By Cecilia Rikap
Cecilia Rikap cautions against letting a select few companies control
the development of AI and the economic and intellectual gains it brings.
AI
bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination
By Philip di Salvo and Antje Scharenberg
AI errors can often perpetuate existing forms of social inequality.
A Switzerland-based research initiative looks at how resistance to ‘algorithmic
injustice’ is shaping up in Europe.
AI
is supposed to make us more efficient – but it could mean we waste more
energy
By Felippa Amanta
The direct – and indirect – carbon footprint of AI use may wipe
out any energy efficiency gains it yields.
AI’s
water woes
By Lean Ka-Min
Apart from its prodigious consumption of energy, AI’s water usage
is adding to its environmental costs.
Developing
ethics for a demystified AI
By Quito Tsui
By unravelling the false narrative of an all-powerful AI, it is
possible to formulate a proactive ethics that orients the technology
towards closing, instead of widening, the development gap between the
global minority and the global majority.
ECOLOGY
The
climate lessons a typhoon taught us
By Gabes Torres
A decade after Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Philippines, the city
of Tacloban is setting a new standard for surviving climate catastrophes.
Heatwave
crisis: Developing nations bear the brunt
By Pranjal Pandey
Developing countries experiencing scorching temperatures feel the
heat in more ways than one.
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ECONOMICS
Could
the UN actually lead a charge to tax the world’s rich?
By Sam Pizzigati
The world’s wealthiest individuals and corporations have gotten
away with paying minimal taxes under the present global tax non-system.
Things may be about to change.
WORLD
AFFAIRS
Colonialism
revamped in the DRC
By Soleil-Chandni Mousseau
The ruinous legacy of colonial exploitation, coupled with ruthless
new forms of extraction, are devastating the resource-rich Democratic
Republic of Congo.
A
brief history of kill lists from Langley to Lavender
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S.
Davies
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies trace the grisly
evolution of the technologies employed by US intelligence organs to
identify and kill their enemies across the globe.
HUMAN
RIGHTS
The
unremarkable migrant deaths in the Sahara
By Vijay Prashad
Making their way across the Sahara in search of a more secure
life in Europe, many African migrants succumb to the perils of the
vast desert, unnoticed and unmourned.
WOMEN
Allez
Les Grenadières
By Magdala Louis
Haiti’s national women’s football team have overcome imposing
odds to become the pride of the country.
ACTIONS
& ALTERNATIVES
Telling
the ‘untold’ stories of Palestinian lives, dreams and hopes
By April M. Short
Even as the carnage in Gaza rages on, an independent media collective
is helping Palestinians share their personal stories, and those of
victims of the conflict, with the wider world.
CULTURE
Rio’s
street poets have something to say
By Hannah McKenzie
The artists who sell their poems on the streets of Rio de Janeiro
see the occupation of public space as a necessary effort to expand
self-expression and access to art.
Third
World Resurgence Page
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