A Chinese court has issued a ruling that could become an important precedent for the global labor and technology markets. The court found unlawful the dismissal of an employee that the company had justified by the implementation of artificial intelligence systems and automation. In effect, this is one of the first high-profile cases in which…
In the twentieth century, totalitarian rule was built on simple things: paper lists, fear, and backrooms with wires in the walls. People disappeared into archives, interrogations, and camps. But even then, it all worked thanks to the technologies of the time — typewriters, intercepted letters, shortwave radio. Technology didn’t save anyone from dictatorship. It merely…
