Reading through your timely latest issue, “Artificial Intelligence,” I couldn’t help but think that it missed several large pieces of the boat. Namely, there was little coverage of the digital sweatshops of human workers that power “machine learning.” There also could have been mention of what I think is the principal end market and purpose of AI: war-making and repression.

 — Michael Novick, Culver City, CA

I’m not normally a Jacobin reader, but I picked up your AI issue and found it to be both beautiful and well-designed. The articles, particularly in the back of the book, hinted at something becoming more and more obvious, too. Like the driverless cars hype a few years ago, people expecting AI to change the world within the next decade are radically off base.