Nick Dyer-Witheford: Inhuman Power

Cover: 9780745338606 | Inhuman Power | Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

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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.

Über den Autor

Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is author of Cyber-Marx (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play (McGill-Queen's, 2003), Games of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Cyber-Proletariat (Pluto, 2015), and the co-author of Inhuman Power (Pluto, 2019).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: AI-Capital

1. Means of Cognition

2. Automating the Social Factory

3. Perfect Machines, Inhuman Labour

Conclusion: Communist AI

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780745338606
ISBN-10:	0745338607
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dyer-Witheford, Nick Kjøsen, Atle Mikkola Steinhoff, James
Hersteller:	Pluto Press
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Nick Dyer-Witheford (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,322 kg

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