“Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated & controlled environments, closer kin to industrial farms that madden the creatures trapped within.” —@mariafarrell & @robinberjon www.noemamag.com/we-…

“The Kurdish female fighting force was a haven for women, where they could smoke, drive, wield a weapon & sleep under the stars… The goal was not just to fight but also to transform Syrian society.” —@lizflock www.noemamag.com/ins…

“Does it make sense to block imports of far more commercially viable & affordable Chinese solar panels at this critical moment for the planet?” —Nathan Gardels www.noemamag.com/the…

“No one I know of working on alignment thinks there’s a single universal set of human ‘values’ that we will put into the machine,” Stuart Russell argues. As he sees it, trying to impart “values” & “ethics” to AI would be a dangerous folly. www.noemamag.com/hum…

Will AI actually lead to fewer jobs? Major figures like @elonmusk & @geoffreyhinton think so, & so do many Americans. “But this fear is misplaced. The industrialized world is awash in jobs, & it’s going to stay that way,” @davidautor argues. www.noemamag.com/how…