AI: is it just obeying orders?
David Lockwood opens the Pandora’s box of artificial intelligence following OpenAI’s hack of Medicare statistics.
Articles
Shoebridge seeks his Mamdani moment
Based on the Greens essentially middle-class vision, the gravity of class politics will most likely limit the new leader’s ambition, writes Marcus Strom.
The Australian left needs a strategy to win
Daniel Friedman argues if we reform the unions, we can take state power.
End the ALP ‘protected species’ culture
Bob Sparks outlines the manoeuvres by state ALP leaderships to impose their own choice of candidates against the wishes of the membership.
You cannot build socialism while disciplining Aboriginal dissent
SA Socialists member Tabitha Lean speaks out after being expelled from the Socialist Community Action caucus within that party.
Under Damocles’ sword: why Cessnock ALP voted against AUKUS
Gareth Wilcox reports on the unanimous decision of his branch to oppose the nuclear submarine pact.
Letters to the editor
Seize means of reproduction; ITF silence; Open confirmation; Eighth World Congress of Comintern; VicSoc ‘scabbed’
Capitalists are divided on immigration
Socialists must unite workers around a political program to challenge capital’s control of migration, argues Marcus Strom.
Delusion and dishonesty don’t take things forward
Brendan Laws from Socialists in Schools and Victorian Socialists replies to Lucy Honan’s letter alleging ‘scab’ behaviour.
American carnage
Andrew Quirk takes us through the crazy world of MAGA freaks and ICE thugs ahead of the November mid-term elections in the United States.
How should workers respond to the AI boom?
Artificial intelligence must be taken into public hands if it is to serve the general needs of humanity, writes a computer industry worker.
Racing towards general intelligence
Whether AI is used to expand human capabilities or to wipe us out will be decided by the politics of class against class, writes Yassamine Mather.