Bibliograph

Inhuman power, artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff

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Label

Inhuman power, artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inhuman power

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff

Series statement

Digital barricades: interventions in digital culture and politics

Sub title

artificial intelligence and the future of capitalism

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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