How Marx's Capital Can Help Us Think About the AI Revolution
Automation is often a horror show under capitalism. In a different system, though, we could let human values dictate which activities we do and don't want to turn over to algorithms.
The following is the transcript of a talk I gave a few weeks ago at King’s College London. Note that I’ve cut most of the references to PowerPoint slides and a few of the quotes from Capital but otherwise kept it intact, meaning that it’s a couple thousand words longer than where I would normally cap out an essay here.
OK, friends and comrades, since amo…