Automation

Theories of Automation from the Industrial Factory to AI Platforms: An Overview of Political Economy and History of Science and Technology

Automation Political economy STS Platforms HST

Matteo Pasquinelli evaluates the state-of-the-art in the debate on automation, advocating for a renewed dialogue between political economy and the history of science and technology (HST)

Artificial Intelligence Design and the Logic of Social Cooperation

Automation Intelligence Labour Social relations

A conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli on AI and the intelligence of social relations

Labour, Intelligence, Automation: Tracing AI’s Coming of Age

Labour Intelligence Automation

A workshop with Matteo Pasquinelli on the theoretical and political challenges that surround AI at the time of its coming of age

Pro qm: The Eye of the Master

Automation Intelligence Labour Social relations

Book Presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli and Henning Schmidgen

Theories of Automation Before and After Artificial Intelligence

panel conference historical materialism automation

Members of the AI Forensics project take part in a panel investigating the spectrum of automation theories and technological transformation, focussing on AI as the last stage of the automation of manual, mental, and care labour.

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Verso, 2023)

Automation Labour

A book presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli at the University of Cambridge

What is a language model? The contribution of semiotics to the studies of AI and automation

Semiotics LLMs Automation

Matteo Pasquinelli mobilises interpretative semiotics to illuminate the invention of algorithmic models.