Submitted by Tequila_Wolf in ArtificialIntelligence

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.

The 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.

Contents:
Introduction: AI-Capital
0.1 The Most Valuable Thing
0.2 Three Polemics
0.3 ‘A Machine Can Be Made to Simulate It’
0.4 Machine Marx
0.5 In the Age of Self-Replicating Automata
0.6 AI Novum
0.7 Chapter Summary

  1. Means of Cognition
    1.1 The New Electricity
    1.2 The AI Industry and the Oligopolists of Machine Intelligence
    1.2.1 IBM
    1.2.2 Alphabet (Google)
    1.2.3 Facebook and Amazon
    1.2.4 Microsoft and Apple
    1.2.5 Beyond the Tech Giants
    1.3 State Actors: AI Superpowers
    1.4 Edge, Cloud and Economies of Scale
    1.5 AI Bubble?
    1.6 The General Conditions of Production
    1.7 The General Conditions of Production for Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
    1.8 Infrastructural AI
    1.9 The Smart City, the Internet of Things, Ambient Intelligence
    1.10 The Means of Cognition
  2. Automating the Social Factory
    2.1 Robots Can’t Beat Us Yet?
    2.2 Class Composition and the Social Factory
    2.3 The Labour of AI
    2.4 Learning the Way of the Human
    2.5 Apocalypse Now or Business as Usual?
    2.6 Panoptics, Precarity, Polarization and Proletarian Schooling
    2.7 Grammatizing the Networks
    2.8 A Heptagon of Struggles
    2.9 Conclusion: Towards the Event Horizon
  3. Perfect Machines, Inhuman Labour
    3.1 Artificial General Intelligence
    3.2 Human Labour and Labour-Power
    3.3 Humans, Animals and Machines Today
    3.4 What Labours?
    3.5 Towards AGI
    3.6 The Fragment on Perfect Machines
    3.7 Artificial Proletarians
    3.8 An Inhuman Capitalism
    Conclusion: Communist AI
    4.1 The Reconfiguration Debate
    4.2 A Communist Orientation to AI
    4.2.1 The ‘AI Plus UBI’ Formula
    4.2.2 AI’s Dirty Secret
    4.2.3 Wartime AI
    4.2.4 Communist AI
    4.3 Inhuman Power
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