John Foster / 21 Jul 2023
The Inhuman Condition
Surviving Artificial Intelligence
You’ve seen it before. It’s a title that screams marketing department, with all the requisite keywords required to stand out at an airport bookstore:(...)
Artificial Intelligence
John Foster / 10 Feb 2023
Always Under Surveillance
The End of Mental Privacy
During the Trump era, it was often said that political satire was becoming impossible.(...)
John Foster / 14 Jan 2022
Communist Artificial Intelligence
Work Without the Worker, by Phil Jones
The robots are coming to take our jobs. Well, perhaps not universally. Truth be told, not everybody thinks it’s a bad thing.(...)
Duncan Simpson / 20 Dec 2021
East Meets West (Slight Return)
China’s Social Credit Model, Part II
The most frequent misconception around China’s Social Credit System (SoCS) is to conflate it with their massively more advanced and covert surveillance and security state.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 21 Apr 2021
When Machines Sing
AAI, by Mouse on Mars
AAI, the new album by storied German electronic group Mouse on Mars, is the rare concept album in which form and content are equals.(...)