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The episode discusses the implications of AI technologies through the lens of Marx's ideas on machinery and labor.

In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about the emancipatory and regressive potentials of AI technologies. Marx thought that automated systems of machinery are incredible embodiments of highly developed human knowledge, which render labor increasingly unnecessary in processes of production, opening the door for unprecedented liberation. Of course, tied to the imperatives of capital accumulation, eve...

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Hosts: Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, William Paris

Topics covered

• AI technologies
• Marxism
• automated systems
• labor
• capital accumulation
• emancipation
• regression

Keywords

• Marx
• AI
• labor
• capital
• automation
• emancipation
• technology

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Books & works: Fragment on Machines, Grundrisse

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