Novelist Rémy Ngamije reflects on the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI. In her first letter, ...
Long before today’s boom, synthetic language was already in circulation. In 1966 MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the ...
Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.
In the absence of facts and trusted sources of information, the AI-generated images and rhetoric of dictators circulate freely on a web increasingly breaking under the weight of slop. Only first-hand ...
A violent crackdown on protest in the Himalayas has shown how the Modi government’s development agenda is at odds with many of its citizens, writes Tarushi Aswani. It started like any other day in Leh ...
A series of huge oil extraction projects have been blocked by campaigners in South Africa. How did they do it and what comes next? Over the last five years, $1.6 billion worth of oil and gas projects ...
The deadliest police killings in Rio de Janeiro’s history raise questions about the government’s war on gangs, writes Leonardo Sakamoto. A police operation against one of ­B­­razil­’s largest criminal ...
Who grows our food? This seemingly simple question is getting harder to answer in a world where our food crosses borders to get to our plate. The contribution of small and industrial-scale farming to ...
‘Development’ has long been reframed and hijacked, but, Wolfgang Sachs argues, we need to move beyond its misguided assumptions into a new post-development era based on eco-solidarity.