#AI + the question of #ownership: "#TeHiku shows that when AI tools are built by organizations with entirely different #incentive structures in place, they can produce wildly different results. As long as AI is designed for the purposes of the #competitive #accumulation of capital, firms will continue to find ways to exploit labor, degrade the environment, take short cuts in data extraction, and compromise on safety, because if they don’t, one of their competitors will."

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/altman-openai-artificial-intelligence-labor-environment-deepseek

Very interesting food for thought:
Ali Kadri, "De-development and the Accumulation of Waste Through Wars" - DevDays2025 Keynote Lecture

Some time ago I listened to Ali Kadri on MAK Capitalism and his ideas about capitalists producing waste for society means more profit for them, and the role of war in this process, intrigued me. The growing amount of money and assets of the 1%, NATO's 5% and ReArm Europe, and austerity for the rest of us (meaning premature death for us) are all related.

Only halfway,so ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8f_QzwfDM

#AliKadri#DeDevelopment#War #accumulation #capitalism #austerity#NATO #inequality