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Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
Contributor(s): Dyer-Witheford, Nick (Author), Kjøsen, Atle Mikkola (Author), Steinhoff, James (Author)

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 ISBN: 0745338607     ISBN-13: 9780745338606
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
OUR PRICE: $24.65  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 176 pages
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Kjosen, Atle Mikkola: - Atle Mikkola Kjosen is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. Dyer-Witheford, Nick: - Nick Dyer-Witheford is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario.Steinhoff, James: - James Steinhoff is a researcher in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
 
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