Artificial Intelligence Solves Problems We Don’t Have
AI might take some administrative jobs and cheapen cultural production. What it won’t do is help us care for each other in an age of demographic change and institutionalized neglect.
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Issue 52: Letters
Two takes on our rapidly aging “Aging” issue.
Issue 52: The Internet Speaks
At the next Jacobin party, we’ll all dance on Henry Kissinger’s grave.
Cyberpunk Politics
Keeping hope alive at New York Comic Con — kind of.
Can Humanity Survive AI?
With the development of artificial intelligence racing forward at warp speed, some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now.
Automation: Roll Out!
At the heart of the US-Japanese franchise Transformers is a tension between visions of robotics as liberation and as enslavement.
Automated Intimacy
This isn’t capitalism’s first loneliness epidemic. But in the 21st century, relationship simulators like Replika are here with the solution: your very own AI lover.
The Misadventures of Cybersyn
Chile’s Project Cybersyn should be remembered as a masterful branding effort — not a road to socialism.
Henry in the Gulf
On the “cynical operation” of Kissinger’s Kurdish affair.
Can AI Be Regulated? Europe Is About to Find Out
Legislation full of carve-outs is no replacement for a political movement to democratize AI.
Henry in Angola
Kissinger’s covert-ops misadventure with apartheid South Africa.
Henry in South Asia
Kissinger and the violent suppression of Bangladesh.