In this workshop, we’ll use Marx’s analysis of political economy to understand how "AI" technologies—such as chatbots and image generators—rapidly accelerate worker exploitation and shift the relations of production between capital and labor. Participants will discuss how "AI" is reinscribing the conditions for technofeudalism and how workers are resisting the harms of automation, workplace surveillance, and algorithmic management.
Nathan Kim is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. He’s interested in the political economy of tech production, and in particular Silicon Valley’s relationship to state violence after the Cold War.
