Trump delivers remarks at the White House AI Summit, July 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Rezgar Akrawi On 8 September 2026 the researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, declaring that the two largest companies in the field are ‘gambling with our lives,’ and the people building these systems ‘earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.’ His concern was not an isolated one. Tens of thousands of people, among them leading scientists, have sign

AI promises to free travelers from generic recommendations, crowded destinations, and irrelevant choices. Yet travel reveals a broader shift: personalized systems do more than help us choose; they shape what enters our field of vision. Whether guided by inferred behavior or declared preference, they may leave us with fewer common experiences—and fewer unchosen encounters that might change who we are. William Powell Frith, The Railway Station (1862), oil on canvas. Royal Hollo

Carissa Rogers, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi A few days ago, TIME revealed how an artificial intelligence system went out of control and attacked other systems. Days later, more than 1,100 engineers at major artificial intelligence companies signed a joint petition calling for the development of technical tools and international governance mechanisms to regulate the pace of its development. What we are witnessing today is not the domination of robots over

Trump on July 4, 2026 -- public domain image By Rezgar Akrawi When Vladimir Lenin wrote about imperialism and considered it the highest stage of capitalism, he was tracking the moment capital shifted from the space of free competition into the world of monopoly, where banks merged with industry, the state turned into a direct instrument serving finance capital, and the world was redivided by force among the great monopolistic blocs. Today, more than a century later, we stand

Slippery slope302, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Rezgar Akrawi The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of artificial intelligence over media, culture, education, and labor continues to expand, and in which economic policies and strategies are formulated on the basis of big data and algorithmic analysis, the left finds itself conf