Erna Mahyuni

ALT Nowhere is this clearer than in the defence that data centres bring jobs. The New Straits Times reported that a single data centre in Malaysia creates only 50 to 150 full-time positions. But the numbers are not even the main problem; the logic is. AI is built and sold on the promise that employers can do more with fewer workers. A technology designed to shrink payrolls cannot also be the engine that expands them, and anyone who claims otherwise is asking us to believe that a profit-maximising system will act against profit. It will not. Unless a mass movement forces that purpose to change, ‘responsible AI’ will remain a lie. What would changing it actually involve? Marxist researcher Gao An ‘An argues that AI has a ‘value al