Vampire AI

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-6040-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

AI is sold to us as neutral, inevitable and transformative, but whose interests does it truly serve?

Drawing on Marx’s image of capital as a vampire – viciously sucking in living labour – this book shows how AI is deeply entangled with capitalism. From the optimisation choices that embed capitalist ethos within, to the platforms that operationalise bad low-paid work, the book demystifies how AI shapes everyday life.

Vampire AI asks what it would mean to redirect the technology to collective ends, serving people rather than capital. The book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and challenge the political economy of artificial intelligence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

P, Deepak

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Backdrop

Chapter 1: The Many AIs: History of a Curious Technology

Chapter 2: Capital as Technological Vampirism

Chapter 3: AI vis-a-vis Capital: AI’s history as Vampiric Advance

Part II: The Phenomenon

Chapter 4: Vampire in the AI Design Framework

Chapter 5: Vampire in AI’s Data-driven Paradigm

Chapter 6: Vampire in AI’s Statistical Model Design Choices

Chapter 7: Abstractions and Uniformisation

Part III: The Fallouts

Chapter 8: The Squeeze: How Vampire AI dishes out Bad Work and Low Wages

Chapter 9: The Spread: The AI-fication of Everything

Chapter 10: The Suppression: The everyday annihilation of Resistance

Part IV: The Future

Chapter 11: The World of AI Red Herrings

Chapter 12: What is to be done?

Über Autor(innen)

Deepak P is Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Queen’s University Belfast and Adjunct Faculty Member at Indian Institute of Technology Madras.