In the 1970s, workers at the Lucas Arms Company used their existing skills to design early forms of hybrid power and solar cells in response to the beginning of the environmental movement.
Despite being crushed, the concept of social production remained.
The concept of social production is still relevant today and as accessible as open AI's night measure vision.
Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss how AI systems encourage ranking populations and austerity policies, and why understanding their politics is essential to opposing them.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
Dan mentions TWIML as a podcast that has conversations with industry players that’s informative for how these technologies work (though you’re not likely to get a critical perspective on them), and Achille Mbembe’s book Necropolitics.