Tag: surveillance capitalism

• Workers Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Take Over Their Jobs

  August 14, 2026

  Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-12/thousands-of-india-workers-are-helping-ai-firms-train-robots-to-replace-them?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjU5MTAzMywiZXhwIjoxNzg3MTk1ODMzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSk9EMEhOM04wOTIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.8jIbwh52D-I5HP12Uf8C3s9FI-QEyGy6Qq7IDsvdrOY&leadSource=article-gifting more ›

• AI 2040: Plan A

  July 18, 2026

  A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence. https://ai-2040.com/ more ›

• Opinion | I Went to China to See Their Progress on A.I. We Can’t Beat Them. – The New York Times

  July 12, 2026

  American leaders should be trying to cooperate with China on A.I. https://share.google/Xga1ppqmsGrXdWSVQ more ›

• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Terrorism

  July 11, 2026

  AI will not transform terrorism overnight. Its more likely effect is subtler: lowering barriers for extremist propaganda, recruitment, disinformation, and planning while strengthening counterterrorism tools and surveillance risks. https://www.csis.org/analysis/artificial-intelligence-and-future-terrorism more ›

• Signal’s President Says You Have Plenty to Hide | The Futurology Podcast

  July 3, 2026

  Today’s tech industry can’t survive without mass surveillance. The US government, foreign powers, and ad brokers can buy a nuanced picture of you on the open market for pennies on… more ›

• Futurology: You Have Plenty to Hide From AI (with Meredith Whittaker and Nils Gilman)

  June 30, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/LiYo15B Today’s tech industry can’t survive without mass surveillance. The US government, foreign powers, and ad brokers can buy a nuanced picture of you on the open market for… more ›

• The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

  June 12, 2026

  Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering. https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-trillionaire-is-a-killer more ›

• The next legal frontier is your face and AI

  June 9, 2026

  Things are getting weird. https://www.theverge.com/column/805821/the-next-legal-frontier-is-your-face-and-ai more ›

• Testing Google’s Gemini Spark AI agent: it’s incredible, and creepy | The Verge

  June 2, 2026

  Gemini Spark, Google’s new agentic AI platform, can accomplish tasks around the web and even soon on your devices. It works astonishingly well — maybe too well. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/941388/gemini-spark-ai-agent-trip-planning more ›

• After Automation | Every

  May 22, 2026

  AI progress creates more work for humans, not less https://every.to/p/after-automation more ›