by Nick Dyer-Witheford (Author), Atle Mikkola Kjosen (Author), James Steinhoff (Author)
About the Author
Nick Dyer-Witheford is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. Atle Mikkola Kjosen is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. James Steinhoff is a researcher in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
About this book
The past several years have brought staggering advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence. And Marxist analysis has to keep up: while machines were always central to Marxist analysis, modern AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated.
Inhuman Power explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI through three approaches, each using the lens of a different Marxist theoretical concept. While the idea of widespread AI tends to be celebrated as much as questioned, a deeper analysis of its reach and potential produces a more complex and disturbing picture than has been identified. Inhuman Power argues that on its current trajectory, AI is likely to render humanity obsolete and that the only way to prevent it is a communist revolution.
Brief contents
Introduction: AI-Capital
1 Means of Cognition
2 Automating the Social Factory
3 Perfect Machines, Inhuman Labour
Conclusion: Communist AI
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series: Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics
Pages: 176 pages
Publisher: Pluto Press (July 15, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745338607
ISBN-13: 978-0745338606