monopolies see oligopolies/ monopolies
Moody, Kim 80
Moore, Jason 161
Moore, Phoebe 92–3
Moravec, Hans 12, 159
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa 22, 23
Morton, Timothy 119, 161
MTurk (Mechanical Turk) 78, 102
Musk, Elon 1, 4, 81, 113, 159
Narrative Science 65
narrow AI 2, 10, 11–12, 88, 127–9
National Security Agency (US) 100
natural form 132–3 see also use-value
Natural Language Generation (NLG) 65
necessary labour-time 136
Negarestani, Reza 166n3
neo-fascism/far right 73, 100–1, 157–8
Neoreaction 157–8
Neuralink 159
news stories, automated 65
Ng, Andrew 30, 34, 127
Nicolaus, Martin 67
Nilsson, Nils J. 128, 165n4
novum 25
Obama, Barack 101
object recognition 45, 122–4
Ocado 85
OECD studies 90
oligopolies/monopolies 41, 42, 43–4, 107–8
Omohundro, Stephen M. 137–8
one-shot learning 123
O’Neill, Cathy 86
open-source programming 53–6, 113
OpenAI 1, 65–6, 113
operaismo 67, 156 see also postoperaismo
O’Reilly, Tim 54, 150
organic composition of capital 17, 19, 24, 141, 155
Osborne, Michael 88
Page, Larry 1, 37
Panzieri, Raniero 155–6
paper clip example 151–2
Pasquinelli, Matteo 164n7
people analytics 92–7
perception 58–60, 67
perpetuum mobile 130–1
Pichai, Sundar 103
Pitts, Frederick Harry 19
platform capitalism 36, 55–6, 93–4
Playment 77
Plum Rains (Romano-Lax) 26
policing 87, 105
political composition 70
politics 99–101, 107–9
post-Fordism 50, 51tab, 64, 71–2
post-operaismo 31, 63, 64, 67, 164n7
postcapitalism 6, 19, 26, 146–9, 150,
151, 154, 155
posthuman feminism 161, 167n4
power see class power
primitive accumulation 143
production, automation of 74, 81–2,
90–1
productivity 16, 45–6
profit
falling rate of (FROP) 17–18, 19
globalization and 71–4
surplus-value and 24
proletarianization 22, 23, 135–8
PyTorch 53
Quill 65
racism and racial discrimination 87, 95–6, 104, 105–6, 157–8
radio-frequency identification (RFID) 56–7
Ramtin, Ramin 22–3
RCN (recursive cortical networks) 123–4
recessions/crises 17–18, 21, 39, 45–6, 73, 142
recommendations (algorithmic) 33, 37, 76, 84
reconfiguration debate 147–9
recursive cortical networks (RCN) 123–4
refusal, doctrine of 67, 155–6
regulation 40, 41, 55, 104–5
reification 149
reinforcement learning 14
Renaud, Karen 119, 125
resistance by Amazon employees 101–2, 103 by Foxconn employees 74 by general population: to AI and surveillance 104–5, 147–8; to capital’s power 73, 99–100; to tech companies 106–7 by Google employees 40, 103
‘Results of the Immediate Process of Production’ (Marx) 19–21
retail automated purchasing 140 automated stores 59–60, 61–2, 85–6 warehousing 84–5, 93, 101–2
revolution 17, 18, 153–5
Rich, Elaine 9
right-wing extremism 73, 100–1, 157–8
Roberts, Michael 46
Roberts, Sarah 78
Robinson, Kim Stanley 26
robots AI vs 2, 9–10 aspirations for 1 in industrial production 74, 81–2, 91 SED and 12 in service sector 68, 95 in warehouses 84–5
Romano-Lax, Andromeda 26
Rose, Geordie 1, 2
Rosenblat, Alex 94
R.U.R. (play) 133–5
Russia 41, 100
Salesforce 103
Samsung 1, 54–5
San Francisco, inequality in 106–7
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation 1
SAP 33–4
Saudi Arabia 137
Schmidt, Eric 107
science fiction 24–8, 68, 133–5
Searle, John 11, 126
security industry 80 see also defence industry
SED (situated, embodied and dynamical framework) 11, 12
Sedol, Lee 14, 88, 120–1
self-driving vehicles 33, 42–3, 45, 81, 82–3
sentiment analysis 66
serfdom 135
service sector jobs 68–9, 72, 82–7, 94–5, 101–2
Shanahan, Murray 127
shape recognition 122
Shewan, Dan 96
Sidewalk Labs 106–7
Siemens 81
Silicon Valley 106–7 see also tech industry
Silicon Valley De-Bug 105
Silver, Beverly 71
Singularity University 159
SIX 62
slavery 135, 137
Slow Tsunami view 143–4
smart cities 57, 106–7
smartphones 54–5, 99
Smith, Jason 142
Snowden, Edward 100
social brain 64
social factory 70–4
social forms 132–5
social individual 63–4
social media defection from 105 subsumption of general behaviour and 98–101 see also specific media
social relations of production 132–3, 139
socialism 2, 146–9
socially necessary labour 17–18, 24
software developers see employees of tech industry
Solow, Robert 45
spatial fixes 71–2
speculation 44
Srnicek, Nick 6, 36, 148, 163n2
Stallman, Richard 54
Stanczyk, Lucas 151
state, the conflict with tech industry 164n4 general conditions of production and 49 policing, use of AI in 87, 105 support of tech industry by 38–42, 74–5 surveillance by 100, 107 workers, moves against 72
Stiegler, Bernard 97–8
strikes 101–2
strong AI 11
Stross, Charles 26–7, 137
subsumption of general human behaviour 97–101 hypersubsumption 21, 51table Marx on 19–21 see also grammatization
Sunflowers (Watts) 27–8
supervised learning 14
supply-chain capitalism see post-Fordism
surplus labour-time 16
surplus populations 5, 23, 140–4
surplus-value expansion of as capital’s goal 3, 31, 135–6 fixed capital and 16, 79–80, 134 profit and 24 relative 20
surveillance military 40, 74–5, 80 resistance to 104–5 by the state 104–5, 147–8 of workers 92–4
Suvin, Darko 25
Sweden, automated stores in 85
symbolic AI 11
taxi drivers 102
Taylor, Astra 4–6
Taylorism 50, 51tab, 70, 92
Teamsters Union 82
tech industry backlash against 107–8 concentration in 41, 42, 43–4, 107–8 contract/precarious workers in 77–8, 79, 102 control of AI by 3–4 culture of 157–8 elite employees of: AI replacement of 78–9; competition for 34–5, 54, 55, 76; culture of 157–8; discrimination and 78–9, 95–6, 103; resistance by 40, 103; salaries for 35, 94, 103 open-source, commodification of by 53–6 state support of 39–42 strengthening of by financial crisis 73–4 UBI as reinforcement for 150–1
Tech Workers Coalition 103
technical composition of production 69–70
technical fixes 71–2, 73, 74–5
TechReset Canada 107
Techsploitation is Toxic 106
TensorFlow 53, 54–5
Tesla vehicles 81
Thiel, Peter 157
Thompson, James 30
Toronto 106–7, Google/Alphabet
Toscano, Alberto 147–9
Tractica 42
traffic (verkehrs) 67
transhumanism 159–61, 167n4
Trichter, Judd 26
trucking 82–3
Trudeau, Justin 107
Trump, Donald 40, 100–1
Turker Nation 102
Uber 82, 93, 102, 113, 114
unemployment 23–4, 87–91, 108–9, 140–4, 145 see also workers: replacement of
unions and worker coalitions 68, 82, 102, 103
universal basic income (UBI) 6, 143, 146, 150–1
unsupervised learning 14
urban development 57
use-value 71, 132, 134, 135–6 see also natural form
utilities see infrastructure
value 132, 134, 135–6 socially necessary labour and 17–18, 24 valorization of 139 see also surplus-value
variable capital AGI as 138–9 fixed capital vs 15, 17, 18, 69–70 see also labour
verkehrs (traffic) 67
Vicarious PFC 122–4
Virno, Paolo 56, 64–5, 66–7
Viv (n.d.) 30
Void Star (Mason) 27
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