Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry

by James Steinhoff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030716910
• ISBN13: 9783030716912
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"