Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
AI and entertainment: here come the machines, there go the jobs
After the recent writers' and actors' strikes, the bosses in film and TV are embracing the cost-cutting potential of AI even faster than before — barely acknowledging that what they will be cutting is livelihoods, writes DENNIS BROE
NO HUMAN NEEDED? Editing, storyboarding and animation all face being replaced by artificial intelligence
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
A MAIN topic of two current TV festivals was AI which, as in other industries, is being touted as a money-saving, cost-cutting entity.
This major trend, which has creators terrified and investors and studio executives “excited,” is the rapidly expanding use in every phase of the business of artificial intelligence, AI.
Perhaps the scariest projection of the technology, described by one longtime independent film assistant director as “nothing but plagiarising software,” is a new gameshow on Korean TV titled Gone Producer. In this nightmare gameshow scenario, the entire series is cast, directed, and produced by AI, which also judges the videos contestants submit in a competition.
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