AI surveillance capitalism denotes socio-technical systems in which artificial intelligence is built on pervasive data extraction, monitoring, and behavioral profiling across workplaces, cities, and digital platforms. It encompasses algorithmic management of labor, predictive policing, facial recognition infrastructures, and emerging neurotechnologies that capture neural and biometric signals. Scholarship in this area examines hidden data labor, geoeconomic and corporate surveillance infrastructures, mental and data privacy, differential impacts on marginalized workers and refugees, and evolving legal frameworks such as neural data protection and democratic accountability mechanisms for high-risk surveillance technologies.
Machine learning & AI
Two and a half years since ChatGPT rocked the world, scientist and writer Gary Marcus still remains generative artificial intelligence's great skeptic, playing a counter-narrative to Silicon Valley's AI true believers.
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Security
Have you heard of the "male technologist" mindset? It may sound familiar, and you may even know such people personally.
May 26, 2025
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Business
When Amazon recently got caught in President Trump's crosshairs for reportedly planning to list the added costs of new tariffs on products sold at its online store, the drama underscored just how much is at stake for companies ...
May 14, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
How should personal data be protected? What are the best uses of it? In our networked world, questions about data privacy are ubiquitous and matter for companies, policymakers, and the public.
May 13, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
The growing use of smart home devices is undermining the privacy and safety of domestic workers. New research from King's College London reveals how surveillance technologies reinforce a sense of constant monitoring and control ...
May 7, 2025
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Security
Imagine applying for a job, only to find out that an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence (AI) rejected your résumé before a human even saw it. Or imagine visiting a doctor where treatment options are chosen by a ...
May 7, 2025
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Business
Last week, Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp—unveiled a new "personal artificial intelligence (AI)."
May 7, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
The 2002 sci-fi thriller "Minority Report" depicted a dystopian future where a specialized police unit was tasked with arresting people for crimes they had not yet committed. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a short ...
May 6, 2025
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Business
Sam's Club is going register-free and introducing an all-digital, AI-powered shopping experience for its customers, a move that has privacy advocates worried that the new AI tool could be used to unfairly target some customers ...
May 6, 2025
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Security
Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces ...
May 5, 2025
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