labour Marx’s concept of 110, 115–20, 124–7, 135–7 replacement of 58–60, 78–9, 82–94, 135–44 share of GDP 73 see also workers
labour theory of value 110, 132
Lake, Brenden M. 121
Land, Nick 7, 153, 156–8
Landing.ai 34
large-scale industry 49, 51tab
learning biases 122–3
Lebeuf, Carlene 59
left-accelerationist view 7, 146–56
legal status 136–7
Lenin, Vladimir 6
LinkedIn, discriminatory hiring and 96
Linux 54
lobbying 41
logistical capitalism see post-Fordism
logistics revolution 82–3
Lucas Plan 154
Luddism 166n2
luxury automated communism 146–7
machine learning (ML) see ML
MacLeod, Ken 27
Maluuba 113, 114
Mandel, Ernest 22
manufacture epoch 48–9, 51tab
manufacturing, automation of 74, 81–2, 90–1
Manzerolle, Vincent 58–9
Marin, Michael 53
Marks & Spencer 83
Marx, Karl architect and bee example 117, 119, 123–4 on circulation of capital 70–1 on concentration 43 on crises 17–18, 21 on general conditions of production 30–1, 39, 46–9, 61, 129
on general intellect 31–2, 63–4, 125–6 on inhuman power 2, 4 on labour and labour-power 110, 115–20, 124–7, 135–7 on machinery 15–21, 129, 147, 152–3; on automation 18–21, 62, 67, 69–70, 129; value, social forms and 130–5, 166n16 on surplus population 141, 142, 144 Mason, Paul 6 Mason, Zachary 27 Maven (Project) 103 maximalist view (‘it’s really happening, let’s speed it up’) 6–7, 145, 146–56 McAfee, Andrew 87–8 McCorduck, Pamela 9 means of cognition 31, 62–7 Mechanical Turk (MTurk) 78, 102 Media Mobilizing Project 105–6 Melville, Andrew 60 mercantilism 51tab Mercer, Rebekah 100 Mészáros, István 160 Microsoft AGI Project 113, 114 algorithm checking by 78 automated retailing and 86 cloud service of 42 current activities (overview) 38 ‘democratization’ of AI and 52–3 employee resistance at 103 vision of AI 30 middle class, hollowing out of 94–5 Mighty AI 77 military-industrial complexes 39–40, 74–5, 152–3 minimalist view 4–6, 145–6 ML (machine learning) AGI and 128–30 definition and types 11, 12–15 Marx’s visions and 21 oligopolies based on 32–8 production of 76–9 model building 76
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