I keep saying it.
The problem is not AI, the problem is AI under Capitalism.
50 years of neoliberalism mean some basic lessons of labour have been forgotten. In volume I of Das Kapital, Marx makes a critique of the Luddites – that the workers who famously smashed the machines were confusing
the means of production with the form of society
“It took both time and experience before the workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and therefore to transfer their attacks from the material instruments of production to the form of society which utilises those instruments.”
And now just over 200 years later here we are repeating the same mistake with the demonisation of LLMs and “AI”.
The white collar and creative class workers who are threatened by AI can’t be blamed. They were largely able to believe they would never be involved with labour organising and so never learned the basics.
Now it’s time to learn. Those displaced by the machines will never succeed in smashing the machines. Instead all effort has to be put into CHANGING THE FORM OF SOCIETY
which means many people who assumed they were Capitalists are discovering that we’re all Communists now
If you want a vision of what AI + Communism might look then we need to talk about The Culture…over on the channel
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Damien Walter 