Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the...
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Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford
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Language: English
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Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism by Dyer-Witheford, Nick

Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

¥9,193

Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

¥9,193
Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 06/01/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780745338606

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.



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