Cover: Automation and Autonomy
James Steinhoff
Automation and Autonomy
- Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
ISBN: 978-3-030-71691-2
245 Seiten | € 117.69
Buch [Taschenbuch]
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.06.2022
Politik
James Steinhoff

Automation and Autonomy

Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry


This book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms. On the basis of this study, Steinhoff develops a Marxist analysis to argue that the popular theory of immaterial labour, which holds that information technologies increase the autonomy of workers from capital, tending towards a post-capitalist economy, does not adequately describe the situation of high-tech digital labour today. In the AI industry, digital labour remains firmly under the control of capital. Steinhoff argues that theories discerning therein an emergent autonomy of labour are in fact witnessing labour’s increasing automation.


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Veröffentlichung:23.06.2022
Höhe/Breite/GewichtH 21 cm / B 14,8 cm / -
Seiten245
Art des MediumsBuch [Taschenbuch]
Preis DEEUR 117.69
Preis ATEUR 120.99
ReiheMarx, Engels, and Marxisms
ISBN-13978-3-030-71691-2
ISBN-103030716910
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Über den Autor

James Steinhoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada.


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