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Cory Doctorow, science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist, and co-author of Chokepoint Capitalism, for the Digital Capitalism course of the Transnational Institute.

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How AI is tricking us and abusing our labor by performing simple algorithms

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$Where is global power shifting? US, China and the Global South: Fractures Session 1 In the first of an eight-week teach-in series, TNI and partners looked at the geopolitical fractures shaking the world order, asking: What is the future for US imperialism? What are China’s global aspirations? Can the global South be a collective agent for progressive change? With: Achin Vanaik, TNi Associate and Retired Professor of International Relations at the University of Delhi Aziz Rana, author of the Two faces of American freedom Ho-Fung Hung, author of Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’ Luciana Ghiotto, Trade and Investment researcher and activist at TNI Visit our website: https://www.tni.org Support our work: https://www.tni.org/en/support-tni Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.tni.org/en/subscribe 00:58 Introduction to session/series 09:19 Aziz Rana on breakdown of global economic order 11:10 Achin Vanaik on global nature of reactionary nationalism 12:40 Ho-Fung Hung on need for crisis to prompt new thinking 17:19 Aziz Rana on history of US imperialism 31:10 Ho-Fung Hung on China-US competition 42:51 Achin Vanaik on the limitations of BRICS/G20 etc 57:19 Luciana Ghiotto on how geopolitics shapes campaigns against corporate trade Q&A 1:05:39 Aziz Rana on openings made by US breaking its own rules 1:09:22 Achin Vanaik on need for progressive nationalism 1:16:10 Ho-Fung Hung on how Global South can navigate geopolitical fractures 1:25:37 Luciana Ghiotto on opportunities for movements in crisis 1:25:56 Aziz Rana on strategies for organising$

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How AI is tricking us and abusing our labor by performing simple algorithms