The Download: Language-preserving AI, and hackers showed it’s frighteningly easy to breach critical infrastructure
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The Download: How AI capitalizes on catastrophe, and the Bitcoin cities of Central America
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It’s okay to opt out of the crypto revolution
If sheer square footage of advertising space is any indication, crypto has arrived. Crypto billboards…
The gig workers fighting back against the algorithms
In the Bendungan Hilir neighborhood, just a stone’s throw from Jakarta’s glitzy central business district,…
Crypto millionaires are pouring money into Central America to build their own cities
Every day, a repurposed garbage truck ferries visitors up El Salvador’s Conchagua Volcano to an…
How the AI industry profits from catastrophe
It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money.…
AI’s inequality problem
The economy is being transformed by digital technologies, especially in artificial intelligence, that are rapidly…
South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid
The cameras are not there yet. But the fiber already is. Thami Nkosi points to…
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order
My husband and I love to eat and to learn about history. So shortly after…
The Download April 19, 2022: Neo-colonial AI, and aging clocks
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