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The Labour Party, meanwhile, proposes AI as a way to tackle the rise in school absenteeism; another case of taking a complex issue involving vulnerable families and replacing the much needed care with the calculative power of cloud-based computation.
AI Will Create a Thousand Post Office Scandals
Dan McQuillan
It's executives and their shareholders attempting to grow company profits, dividends and their own compensation by introducing a new form of automation that not only justifies cost-cutting, but operates by lessening the economic value of the human-authored works that are used for 'AI training', while fracturing worker solidarity by encouraging them to collaborate with genAI "copilots" rather than each other.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
News Editor
In the societies of control, on the other hand, what is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a *password*, while on the other hand the disciplinary societies are regulated by *watchwords* (as much from the point of view of integration as from that of resistance).
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
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