wages, suppression of during 1970s/80s 72 by AI deployment 28–9, 80, 81, 142–3 by economic crises 18, 21, 80 as main issue today 93 Marx on 17, 135–6 mass movements to fight 70 neo-fascism as result of 73 resistance to 101–2 surplus population and 141–2 within tech industry 77, 93 by threat of AI 5, 74 women, minorities and 96
Walmart 34, 85–6
Wang, Pei 110, 128–9
Warp-CTC 53
Washington consensus 39
Watson (IBM) 36
Watts, Peter 27–8
weak AI 11
Westworld 68
white supremacists 157–8
Wilde, Lawrence 124
Williams, Alex 6, 148
Winfield, Alan 9–10
women see gender
workers algorithmic surveillance of 92–4 class composition and 69–75 doubly free 136–7 intensification of labour for 83, 84, 85, 90 Marx on machinery and 15–21 polarization among 94–5 precarity for 77–8, 93–4, 142–3, 150–1 qualitative employment issues for 91–7 replacement of 58–60, 78–9, 82–94, 135–44 resistance by 40, 101–2, 103 subsumption of 19–21 in tech industry (see tech industry) threat of technology as weapon against 4–5, 17, 74 training of 96–7 see also wages, suppression of
xenofeminism 167n4
Y Combinator 150
Yampolskiy, Roman V. 44–5
Yang, Dan 150
Yudkowsky, Eliezer 11
Zuckerberg, Mark 1
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