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Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)

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Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days, or so they say. The promise of AI has had everyone from the genocidal elder beast to Silicon Valley libertarians in a mixture of religious awe and terror. In this video we look at artificial intelligence not as a speculative possibility, but first and foremost as a political image that has a corresponding economic and political actuality. If we were to truly gaze upon these machines as the computational prisons of labour that they are, we would be justified in shuddering before their falsity.

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