Rapidly advancing technology is reshaping the fabric of society and corporate power. AI is being integrated into everything we do: our jobs, our classes and even our personal communication. At the same time, it is being used to perfect the means of destruction and domination, improving military and surveillance technology. Businesses are using it to intensify the exploitation of their workers and erode their rights. Meanwhile, a small clique of Silicon Valley techbro billionaires are making insane amounts of money from it.
This session will navigate how socialists can understand what is going on, and what it will take to wrestle democratic control of the tech industry from those who currently control it.