Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years.
While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of
capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have
anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to
increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning in
narrow domains.
This book explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI
through the lenses of different theoretical concepts, including
surplus-value, labour, the general conditions of production, class
composition and surplus population. It argues against left
accelerationism and post-Operaismo thinkers, asserting that a deeper
analysis of AI produces a more complex and disturbing picture of
capitalism's future than has previously been identified.
Inhuman Power argues that on its current trajectory, AI represents an
ultimate weapon for capital. It will render humanity obsolete or turn
it into a species of transhumans working for a wage until the heat
death of the universe; a fate that is only avoidable by communist
revolution.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786803962
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Pluto Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok