[Commlist] New book: Inhuman Power Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism

Book Announcement: Inhuman Power Artificial Intelligence and the Future 
of Capitalism (Pluto Press)


I'm very pleased to announce the publication of /Inhuman Power: 
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism/ (Pluto Press), by 
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and myself (James Steinhoff).

Here's the back cover blurb:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. 
While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of 
capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have 
anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to 
increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning in 
narrow domains.

This book explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI 
through the lenses of different theoretical concepts, including 
surplus-value, labour, the general conditions of production, class 
composition and surplus population. It argues against left 
accelerationism and post-Operaismo thinkers, asserting that a deeper 
analysis of AI produces a more complex and disturbing picture of 
capitalism's future than has previously been identified.

Inhuman Power argues that on its current trajectory, AI represents an 
ultimate weapon for capital. It will render humanity obsolete or turn it 
into a species of transhumans working for a wage until the heat death of 
the universe; a fate that is only avoidable by communist revolution.

And some links:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/

<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/>
	
Inhuman Power - plutobooks.com 
<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/>
www.plutobooks.com

Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of 
Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is 
author of Cyber-Marx (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of 
Digital Play (McGill-Queen's, 2003), Games of Empire (University of 
Minnesota Press, 2009) Cyber-Proletariat (Pluto, 2015), and the 
co-author of Inhuman Power (Pluto, 2019).



https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo38297763.html
<https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo38297763.html>
	
Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism, 
Dyer-Witheford, Kjosen, Steinhoff - press.uchicago.edu 
<https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo38297763.html>
www.press.uchicago.edu
The book Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of 
Capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen, and James 
Steinhoff is published by Pluto Press.


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