Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future or Capitalism - Digital Barricades

What would Marx have made of Artificial Intelligence?

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial Intelligence.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen, James Steinhoff
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2019
• EAN: 9780745338606
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3860-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Digital Barricades
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Kommunismus, Wirtschaftspolitik, Marxismus, Künstliche Intelligenz, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft, KI, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Wirtschaftssysteme und -strukturen, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Intelligenz / Künstliche Intelligenz, Künstliche Intelligenz - AI, Gesellschaft / Theorie, Philosophie, Wissenschaften