San Francisco can’t wash its hands of AI’s environmental damage

San Francisco can’t wash its hands of AI’s environmental damage

In San Francisco, the artificial-intelligence boom still has a remarkably clean public image. It looks like office towers refilling, restaurants getting lunch traffic again, young engineers moving into Mission Bay and city leaders building political careers on the narrative of recovery. Across the rest of the country, it looks very… Continue reading

AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED

AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit… Continue reading

Bernie Sanders Announces Plan to Seize Half of AI Industry for the Public Good

“Who will own and control that future? Who will benefit from it, and who will be hurt by it?” By Victor Tangermann Published Jun 2, 2026 (Futurism.com) The hype surrounding generative AI has generated astronomical amounts of value, with tech companies raising tens of billions of dollars and many — including OpenAI… Continue reading

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IF AI IS GOING TO REPLACE WORKERS, WHY NOT START WITH CEOS?

WED, 7/26/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) Two years before he died, legendary physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking ominously warned that the development of artificial intelligence, or AI, would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” Today, the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, or AI, is… Continue reading

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