AI: is it just obeying orders?
David Lockwood opens the Pandora’s box of artificial intelligence following OpenAI’s hack of Medicare statistics.
Society & Culture
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.
Capitalists are divided on immigration
Socialists must unite workers around a political program to challenge capital’s control of migration, argues Marcus Strom.
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.
AI: the biggest economic bet in US history
With billions pouring into AI coffers – but no sign of any profitability – Michael Roberts expects a crash to come. But will it smash the technology it is creating? Unlikely.
Male entitlement and the material roots of sexual violence
What lies behind the spate of recent horrific stories of sexual assault and allegations of sexualised power? Brunhilda Olding examines the issue.
Washington returns to Cold War tactics
Richard Stone looks at the ‘Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism’ jamboree in Washington aimed at perceived enemies at home and abroad.
New ‘feudalism’, or capitalism renewed
Sally Ly from the Vietnam Marxists group looks at Yanis Varoufakis’s compelling thesis but finds it wanting.
Can AI save capitalism?
Michael Roberts looks at the investment boom in artificial intelligence and examines if it is sustainable or heading towards a bubble burst.
‘We should move to abolish power bills’
ETU’s Michael Wright on Sovereign Power, public ownership and Australia’s energy future. An interview with Labor Tribune editor, Marcus Strom.