Historical Materialism

Theories of Automation Before and After Artificial Intelligence

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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 Labour Theory of Automation from Babbage to AI

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Matteo Pasquinelli grounds the rise of automation and AI in the development of metrics of labour and social behaviours

Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering

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Paolo Caffoni discusses the indexing of language’s value in Machine Translation