McQuillan, Daniel. 2025. Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right. Computer Weekly, ISSN 0010-4787 [Article]

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Critical computing expert Dan McQuillan argues that, on top of the clear social and environmental harms associated with the technology, Labour's vapid fixation on AI-led growth in lieu of real change will further enable the far right. Instead, he proposes an alternative strategy of 'decomputing'.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Labour, AI, plan, data centres, decomputing
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 14 January 2025 Published
Item ID:	38691
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2025 08:58
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2025 08:58
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38691

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