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Dehumanization. �Work, machines, and artificial intelligence.

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Machinery and work

  • Aristotle
    • Looms that weave by themselves.
  • The Luddites , https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddism
  • Sismondi ,
  • Ricardo
    • On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (3rd ed. 1821) , https://archive.org/details/onprinciplespol00ricagoog , chapter on machinery from the 3rd edition.
  • Chaplin

Marx, Capital I, Siglo XXI, 1975, page 497

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Optional. Sismondi 's automatic economy

Jean Charles Leonard Simonde �by Sismondi, 1773-1842

New principles of economics politics II , 1824, page 263 �https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/18582

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Ricardo's rectification

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Optional. Economic schemes and equations

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Tugan's schemes

History of Industrial Crises in England , La España Moderna, Madrid 1914, note on page 219 https://web.archive.org/web/20120206084532/http://www.ucm.es/info/bas/es/tugan/crisis600.pdf

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Computing and the mind, Alan Turing (1912-1954)

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Self-reproduction , �John von Neumann (1903-1957)

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Optional. Other references about Von Neumann

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Artificial intelligence

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Artificial intelligence in the press

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Food for thought. �Automatic economy

“The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Leontief

  • In capitalist systems, much of the work that horses and donkeys used to do in the countryside has been replaced by machines (to the point that donkeys are in danger of disappearing).
  • Let's imagine that in a capitalist system, technological progress manages to replace human labor with robots and artificial intelligence.
  • If we pose this problem in the equations of prices of Leontief, Sraffa or Von Neumann we will find that no logical difficulty arises with it, that prices will continue to exist, even if there are no longer human beings in the economy.
  • In our game, prices and the economy also work, even though there are no humans as workers or consumers.
  • Capitalist systems do not need human beings as producers or consumers; they can continue to operate even without human presence. Prices in capitalist systems are therefore neither a direct nor indirect expression of subjective needs (nor are they transformed human labor).