A steady rise in the demand for electricity is slowing the decline of coal-fired power, even as wind and solar generation hits new highs.

The enormous environmental impact of AI products and services has become a major concern, but how can we exactly measure this impact?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

Long-term residents post Brexit also say they have faced difficulties exercising travel and equal treatment rights A significant number of EU citizens living long term in the UK post Brexit are experiencing discrimination in work and in public services, a report by the UK’s statutory Brexit watchdog has revealed. Five years after the UK quit the bloc, more than a third reported feeling discriminated against by public bodies. One in five said they had experienced difficulties accessing their rights including the right to work, the right to travel in and out of the country and their right to equal treatment in public services. Continue reading...

The rising demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling the growth of extractive supply chains to build and power the infrastructures this technology demands. However, there is ambigu...

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

The Anacé Indigenous community is going to court to stop a planned TikTok data center they say is being built on their land.

Activists in Querétaro criticise state government for prioritising the data processing needs for US tech firms over their own citizens

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in debates about education, including at policy level. Earlier this year, the UK Education Secretary (with responsibility for education in...

El Ejército de Israel ha matado a al menos 66 palestinos en lo que va de domingo, 33 cuando iba a recoger comida.

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This talk explores the entanglements between bio-socio-algorithmic assemblages. It contends that alternative models of the world require alternative approaches to technological development grounded in...

Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of prog...

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This paper proposes a framework to assess systemic risks that compound and cascade within and between systems. This emphasizes political economy and transformations, as well as trans-disciplinarity an...

Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility

By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...