Artificial Intelligence

The AI boom is driving a need for huge data centres that consume vast volumes of water and energy. In the face of growing resistance, big tech companies are looking for new regions to build them in. Can a country like Spain, in the midst of a climate emergency, take this gamble? Meta and other internet giants think so.

Though an important step, the EU AI Act makes major concessions to corporate interests and law enforcement authorities.

AI specialist Kate Crawford uncovers the earthly underpinnings of the digital realm.

Striking a balance between harm prevention and excessive control is a major challenge when it comes to regulating AI.

The absence of fundamental rights protection in the new European Commission regulation on AI puts communities at risk.

The legal philosopher questions the drive to rationalise all aspects of life through data and sets out possibilities for alternatives.

Tracing the rise of transhumanism, the techno-utopian philosophy that provides no answer to social and environmental crisis.

The internet of today is far from the digital promised land first imagined by cyber utopians. Geopolitics will play a defining role in shaping its future.

New surveillance technologies and AI are rapidly transforming policing, but what does this mean for civil liberties?

Luxemburgish Socialist MEP Mady Delvaux-Stehres discusses how we can place technology at the service of workers, social cohesion, and the fight against inequality.