SR 2021: Interpretation Machines /w Larry Lohmann
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain … Watch video »
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain fragmentary and contested. Yet the crises that twenty-first century digital mechanization presents and exacerbates may shed new light on this longer history of automation even as they confront the left with fresh puzzles.
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. Larry’s article in the 2021 Socialist Register: “Interpretation Machines: Contradictions of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in 21st-Century Capitalism.”
Moderated by Michael Lardner.
Recorded online, 14 February 2021.
