The Truth about Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT | Dhruv Rathee  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJefOB8kec8  Jul 16, 2023  Over the past year, artificial intelligence has emerged as a prominent and widely discussed subject. It is no longer merely a buzzword, but rather a practical tool that we can actively employ. Revolutionary platforms such as ChatGPT and Midjourney are transforming the functioning of our world. However, the advancement of AI also raises significant and profound inquiries. Will AI supersede human capabilities? Does it pose a threat to humanity's existence? What about the potential job displacement caused by AI? If you share these concerns, watch this video by Dhruv Rathee, where he delves into the realities of artificial intelligence, offering insights and answers to these pressing questions.

The Future of Jobs 2020 report WEF:  Recession and Automation Changes Our Future of Work, But There are Jobs Coming, Report Says 20 Oct 2020

The workforce is automating faster than expected, displacing 85 million jobs in next five years
The robot revolution will create 97 million new jobs, but communities most at risk from disruption will need support from businesses and governments
In 2025, analytical thinking, creativity and flexibility are among the top skills needed; with data and artificial intelligence, content creation and cloud computing the top emerging professions
The most competitive businesses will be those that choose to reskill and upskill current employees

The public sector will need a three-tiered approach to help workers. This includes providing stronger safety nets for displaced workers, improving the education and training systems and creating incentives for investments in markets and the jobs of tomorrow.

Companies can measure and disclose their treatment of employees by adopting environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH1fFdjzJAw What will the future of jobs be like?

Antimarket: Capitalism Decarbonised https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/william-davies/antimarket review of  Review and discussion of: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet , by Brett Christophers

Liberal ideology  imagine that ‘economic life’ (i.e. competitive egalitarian markets) still rules the roost. This myopia is manifest in the economics curricula of major universities, which have continued to exclude theories which emphasise power, uncertainty, monopoly and instability, and clung to an orthodoxy in which economic activity is chiefly determined by prices and incentives.

Politicians, meanwhile, cleave to liberal fairy tales about making work pay, social mobility, and ownership for all—which are increasingly divorced from a reality of in-work poverty, unearned wealth, and spiralling rents. And financial services masquerade as just another ‘sector’ among many, selling their wares in a marketplace like humble shopkeepers.

Brett Christophers, in The Price Is Wrong, adds to this list a potentially more drastic symptom: a failure on the part of policymakers to understand the energy transition on which the future of the planet hinges. The operating assumption of energy economists over the years has been that the key obstacle to the growth of renewable energy is its higher cost, which renders it unable to compete against fossil fuels in the energy market, and hence reliant on government subsidy. It was a moment of great excitement, therefore, when in 2015 the International Energy Agency reported that, finally, renewable technologies (primarily solar and wind farms) were ‘no longer cost outliers’ relative to gas, coal, oil and nuclear power generation.

the goods on which society depends have been privatised in the name of encouraging market competition, but with results that look nothing at all like a ‘free’ market, and with predictable beneficiaries. These goods haven’t just been privatised, but ‘assetised’, in the sense that they have been packaged up, quantified and managed in ways that suit the calculations and interests of financiers. (The difference in the case of renewable energy is how unusually treacherous the assetisation project has been, to the point where it has often proved impossible to get the necessary turbines and solar panels built in the first place.) The financial sector deals in the language of risk, but it seeks out situations in which profitability is effectively guaranteed, a certain level of return baked in. 

the central fact of the climate crisis is that there is very little time, and the scale of the political challenge increases with each passing day. The importance of acting as swiftly as possible scrambles our usual political and moral coordinates, forcing us to look beyond the political and economic solutions we might usually hope for, and more favourably on those which are considered ‘realistic’.

Waiting for solutions to emerge in a bottom-up fashion, whether from activists or from markets, is not sufficient. Only the state has the power, the money and the coordinating capacity to direct capital investment at sufficient scale and speed towards the renewables sector. In practice, the distinction between a ‘de-risking’ state (which tops up private sector profits) and a Green New Deal (which builds new public infrastructure) may be less clear-cut than it appears on paper. The priority, as it has been now for decades, is to go as big and as soon as possible

by AMOGH ROHMETRA

23/04/2024

For the underpaid, underrepresented Adivasi workers of Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri, elections are often a time to express their discontent. by Nolina Minj

https://scroll.in/article/1066783/view-from-the-margins-in-the-tea-gardens-of-bengal-neither-ram-mandir-nor-kashmir-is-a-poll-issue 

Voting is often the only chance that many of India's marginalised groups get to express themselves. As national elections approach, Scroll's reporters fanned out across the country to talk to groups with little socio-political power as part of a series called the View from the Margins. The aim: try to understand how the powerless and the voiceless have fared under a decade of the Modi government.

View from the Margins: For Adivasis of Kerala, the state is not always a shining example of equality by Johanna Deeksha

https://scroll.in/article/1066510/view-from-the-margins-for-adivasis-of-kerala-the-state-is-not-always-a-shining-example-of-equality 

Leela Santhosh, an Adivasi filmmaker, says her community suffers from prejudice and neglect, no matter which party rules at the Centre.

View from the Margins: A Dalit Christian explains why he will be voting for change by Johanna Deeksha

https://scroll.in/article/1066635/view-from-the-margins-a-dalit-christian-explains-why-he-wants-the-bjp-to-lose 

The increasing attacks on minorities during Narendra Modi’s tenure have convinced Christuraj S that it is time for power to switch hands.

View from the Margins: Uttarakhand’s ghost villages embody the state’s economic challenges by Vineet Bhalla

https://scroll.in/article/1066545/view-from-the-margins-uttarakhands-ghost-villages-embody-the-states-economic-challenges 

Limited economic prospects, poor infrastructure and natural calamities driven by climate change have sparked large-scale migration.

View from the Margins: A Lepcha activist describes the destructive development in Sikkim by Vaishnavi Rathore

https://scroll.in/article/1066047/view-from-the-margins-a-lepcha-activist-describes-the-destructive-development-in-sikkim 

Mayalmit Lepcha has watched with dread as successive governments have sanctioned dams in the state despite its fragile geography.

View from the margins: How a Mumbai realtor is helping NRC-scared Muslims rectify their documents by Neerad Pandharipande

https://scroll.in/article/1065942/view-from-the-margins-after-caa-enforcement-muslims-rush-to-get-their-identity-documents-in-order 

With the Citizenship Amendment Act implemented, will the National Register of Citizens be next? The question is tormenting many in Mumbai. 

by Nolina Minj

22/04/2024

Rethinking Political Economy https://www.bostonreview.net/special_project/rethinking-political-economy/
Rethinking Political Economy begins with a world in crisis—after forty years of market fundamentalism—and asks how we build a new one. We debate new ways to think about protecting the planet, the relationship of equality and democracy, the need for racially inclusive prosperity, the promise of industrial policy, the dangers of concentrated economic power, and a revival of investment in public goods.

Observing that it ‘raises substantial issue of compliance of environmental norms,’ the National Green Tribunal recently took a suo motu cognisance of The Indian Express investigation report titled ‘Mumbai lost over 21,000 trees in 6 years to make way for Metro, road projects’ published last month.

Comment on WA: PS: This toothless body has suddenly sprung to life in election season. Is there an ulterior motive behind all the "credible" institutions of India, which have hitherto been supportive of environmental crimes and not of conservation, speaking up for it now?

Modi has been on a spree of ‘interviews’ with no interruptions, follow-ups, or counter-questions. https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/04/18/inside-indian-polls-modis-lies-fake-news-and-media-that-does-not-question  Kalpana Sharma 18 Apr, 2024

We have many independent digital news platforms and channels, although if you are a person who principally gets news from mainstream media, when you listen and read what they report, you might think they are reporting from a parallel universe.

The other alternate universe is of fake and misleading news, of hate speech, of the deliberate twisting of facts to push forward a particular narrative.  

The ANI Intervbiew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRW9evFZBw
smita prakash non-interviews modi | MEGHNERD REACTS   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxP6i_CULCo smita prakash non-interviews modi | MEGHNERD REACTS 

NEWSWEEK : Exclusive Interview: Narendra Modi and the Unstoppable Rise of India https://www.newsweek.com/2024/04/19/exclusive-interview-narendra-modi-unstoppable-rise-india-1888678.html  Newsweek, could run an “exclusive” with Modi that reads like a series of press releases strung together. It is an “interview” without any questions. And it is the cover story that has Modi’s face and, in capital letters, the word “Unstoppable”.  
BY DANISH MANZOOR BHAT ON 04/10/24

India elections: ‘Our rule of law is under attack from our own government, but the world does not see this’  https://theconversation.com/india-elections-our-rule-of-law-is-under-attack-from-our-own-government-but-the-world-does-not-see-this-226889  April 11, 2024 Led by the ideology of Hindutva, which perceives India’s history to be inextricably linked with Hindu religious practice, and with the help of a hand-picked committee of advisers, they have pursued a vision of India as a country run by Hindus for Hindus.

This is the story of how you build an authoritarian state, the legal way.

Step 1: reinterpret existing laws..Hindus attacking marginalised groups is no longer discrimination in India. But stating that powerful Hindu groups are attacking minorities is now hate speech or incitement

Step 2: introduce new laws. The second element of Modi’s strategy is the introduction of new anti-minority laws and criminal codes. 

Step 3: silence the judges third strategy that India’s government has used to cement power and undermine democratic structures: the silencing of a once-independent, critical judiciary.

Step 4: revise history: To achieve complete control over public opinion, one final ingredient is required: one must use the now-subordinated legal system to promote a version of national history that falls in line with the government’s social and political vision.

At its heart, any authoritarian project – whether in the US, Russia or India – must set out to tackle the country’s legal system. To achieve the desired level of control, the project’s leaders know they must bring supposedly justice-producing institutions like courts and police into line with their political ideologies, or their ambitions for the country will fail.

NYAY GUARANTEES TO LIBERATE THE COUNTRY FROM BJP'S 10 YEARS ANYAY KAAL ✋🏾🇮🇳

Today the country is troubled, and people are frustrated -

✖ due to rising inflation
✖ due to increasing unemployment
✖ due to wrong GST
✖ due to increasing atrocities against women

👉🏾 On one hand, tax waivers and loan waivers worth lakhs of crores to a few billionaires
👉🏾 On the other hand, the general public is hit by inflation and higher taxes

⭕ Congress Party & INDIA Alliance have come together to guarantee justice against all these injustices

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