[D66] Inhuman Power

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(AI gaat ons echt niet redden...)


https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/

Inhuman Power
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff

Series: Digital Barricades

An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial
Intelligence.

   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.

n 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.

Introduction: AI-Capital
1. Means of Cognition
2. Automating the Social Factory
3. Perfect Machines, Inhuman Labour
Conclusion: Communist AI
Notes
Bibliography
Index