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 HSTMatteo 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 relationsA conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli on AI and the intelligence of social relations
Labour, Intelligence, Automation: Tracing AI’s Coming of Age
Labour Intelligence AutomationA 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 relationsBook Presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli and Henning Schmidgen
Theories of Automation Before and After Artificial Intelligence
panel conference historical materialism automationMembers 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 LabourA 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 AutomationMatteo Pasquinelli mobilises interpretative semiotics to illuminate the invention of algorithmic models.