Books Details
Author : Michael Betancourt Pages : 172 pages Publisher :
Wildside Press Language : ISBN-10 : 1479448192 ISBN-13 :
9781479448197
Books Descriptions
"What exactly does AI automate?"Betancourt begins with the
obvious answer, 'human labor, ' and ends with the nature of
value created in capitalism. His analysis was written for a
lecture at the Aspen Institute-Germany's Third Annual Berlin AI
Conference, "Humanity Enabled: AI & the Great Economic
Awakening" in March, 2020. The 'great decoupling' of labor from
productivity and value suggests the potential for a post-labor
economy, and the expansion of the 'society of leisure' formerly
reserved for only the dominant social classes. This book
concerns the social, cultural, and economic barriers to the
development of a fairer, egalitarian, and more democratic
society in terms of a broad, kaleidoscopic array of tendencies
including the gamification of social activity by social credit,
the role of marketing in popular media, the authoritarian
usurpation of democracy in the smart city, and the proposal of
universal basic income as a palliative for the replacement of
human labor by
