Webster Hall in Manhattan has a long history of rebellion. A century ago, garment workers organised strikes here, socialists debated the future, and New York’s radicals gathered to demand change.
On October 19, the grand ballroom was packed again. The crowd, spilling onto the balconies, laughed at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s jokes, cheered former antitrust chief Lina Khan, and hung on the every word of writers Arundhati Roy, Karen Hao and Naomi Klein. The cause that brought them together? Artificial intelligence.
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