Historical Materialism
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 Labour Theory of Automation from Babbage to AI
Historical Materialism psychometrics history of science and technologyMatteo 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
Historical Materialism panel conference language machine translationPaolo Caffoni discusses the indexing of language’s value in Machine Translation