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Who Needs 5G in Malta? Certainly Not You!

October 3, 2019 · Michele Kipiel ·

Let us no longer focus on health, but rather on three other facets of 5G: who stands to profit from it, how is it going to affect our society and whether a country as small as Malta needs a 5G infrastructure at all.

Tagged With: public internet, surveillance capitalism, technology

‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?

January 16, 2019 · Francois Zammit ·

Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?

Tagged With: AI, algorithms, facial recognition, mass surveillance, technology

Let the Machine Do It

November 7, 2018 · Aaron Sterniczky ·

There is an urgent need for resource-conserving, smart, emission-neutral production processes. But as the supply of steady employment weakens, a highly competitive labour market and a restricted welfare state would dismantle democratic achievements and enhance authoritarian trends.

Tagged With: democracy, technology, technopolitics, Universal Basic Income

Transhumanism & AI: Utopia or a Nightmare in the Making?

September 27, 2018 · Francois Zammit ·

Transhumanism presents itself as a utopia. It promises advancement and progress beyond imagination. However, the question is: Whose utopia would this be? 

Tagged With: inequality, technology, technopolitics, transhumanism, utopia

Earn Money Online: the Politics of Microwork and Machines

August 7, 2018 · Lorenzo Marsili & Antonio Casilli ·

Understanding how the world of work is changing, and in whose interest, is the key political question of the future. 

Tagged With: AI, algorithms, machine learning, microwork, technology, technopolitics

Technology is No Guarantee of Equality

June 25, 2018 · Bartłomiej Kozek ·

Jędrzej Niklas of the London School of Economics talks to Bartłomiej Kozek about how algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and argues that they should not be left in the hands of IT people.

Tagged With: algorithms, democracy, equality, technology

Social Empowerment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

May 17, 2018 · João Janeiro ·

Data collected from users feeds algorithms that are shaping our perceptions about the world and the way we engage with the information by selecting what we can see, read and listen on the web, most of the time with a hidden agenda.

Tagged With: AI, democracy, technology

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