Artificial Intelligence and the Marxist Understanding of Productive Forces

- On the contradictory development of productive forces in the period of capitalist decay and their dialectical relationship with the relations of productions

https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/artificial-intelligence-marxist-understanding-of-productive-forces/

English-Language Theoretical Review of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), New Series No.91, June 2023

 

 

Contents

▶ Artificial Intelligence and the Marxist Understanding of Productive Forces

- On the contradictory development of productive forces in the period of capitalist decay and their dialectical relationship with the relations of productions

  A Pamphlet (with 4 Figures and 3 Tables) by Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 2 June 2023, www.thecommunists.net

Introduction
1. An example of pseudo-Marxist AI advocacy
2. What are productive forces?
3. Commodity fetishism and technology fetishism
4. The relationship between productive forces and the relations of productions
5. Transformation of productive forces into destructive forces
6. Consequences of AI for the capitalist economy
7. The liberation of productive forces from the fetters
of obsolete capitalist relations of production – what does this mean?
8. Productive forces, alienation and way of life under capitalism
9. Conclusions
Footnotes

▶ Why ChatGPT and similar technologies are more dangerous than you might think

- How socialists should approach deep-learning A.I.

▶Artificial Intelligence: A Leviathan Monster Serving the Ruling Class

- Theses on Artificial Intelligence and its application in the period of capitalist decay.
A first approach from a Marxist viewpoint.