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PublisherPluto Press

ISBN-100745338607

ISBN-139780745338606

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038684102

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Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameInhuman Power : Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

SubjectSocial Aspects, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, History & Theory

Publication Year2019

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers, Political Science, Technology & Engineering

AuthorAtle Mikkola Kjøsen, Nick Dyer-Witheford, James Steinhoff

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews'Indispensable reading for all those who want to understand the relationship between artificial intelligence and capitalism', 'A disturbing but essential addition to the rapidly growing literature on the risks posed by capitalist-conceived AI', 'A fascinating and pioneering work that deploys Marx to understand contemporary AI capitalism. An exemplary contribution to understanding how machine learning is changing our world and transforming communist strategy', 'A fascinating and pioneering work that deploys Marx to understand contemporary AI capitalism, and AI to reflect on the limits of traditional anti-capitalist thinking. This work is an exemplary contribution to understanding how machine learning is changing our world and transforming communist strategy', 'A radical and provocative reading of the conjuncture between AI and capitalism proposing that AI is capital's future, the mechanism by which it acquires a life of its own. The authors' criticisms of left accelerationism are timely and persuasive, their conclusion is bracing but necessary: if AI can't be redeemed from within capitalism, it must be reclaimed from outside. The only hope for a fundamentally different socio-technological order lies in conflict', 'A radical and provocative reading. The authors' criticisms of left accelerationism are timely and persuasive, their conclusion is bracing but necessary.'

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal303.4833

Table Of ContentSeries 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

SynopsisThe 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHM851