{"id":296162,"date":"2017-02-23T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/artificial-intelligence-frankenstein-or-capitalist-money-machine\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T07:51:00","slug":"artificial-intelligence-frankenstein-or-capitalist-money-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/artificial-intelligence-frankenstein-or-capitalist-money-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence:  Frankenstein or Capitalist Money Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em>\u2019 Special Report (2\/16\/2017) published a four-page spread on the \u2018use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)\u2019.  Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington\u2019s megaphones on the editorial pages and political columns, the Special Report is a thoughtful essay that raises many important issues, even as it is fundamentally flawed.<\/p>\n<p>            The writer, Richard Walters, cites several major problems accompanying AI from \u2018public anxieties, to inequalities and job insecurity\u2019.  Walters pleads with those he calls the \u2018controllers of autonomous systems\u2019 to heed social and \u2018political frictions\u2019 or face societal \u2018disruption\u2019.  Experts and journalists, discussing the long-term, large-scale destruction of the working class and service jobs, claim that AI can be ameliorated through management and social engineering.<\/p>\n<p>            This essay will proceed to raise fundamental issues, questions leading to an alternative approach to AI relying on class analysis.  We will reject the specter of AI as a \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 by identifying the social forces, which finance, design and direct AI and which benefit from its negative social impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basic Questions:  Demystifying AI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            The best and the worst of the experts reporting on AI assert that it is an autonomous system, devoid of any link to the class structure within which it operates.  Their version of technological determinism, above and beyond the needs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/02\/artificial-intelligence-frankenstein-or-capitalist-money-machine\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times\u2019 Special Report (2\/16\/2017) published a four-page spread on the \u2018use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)\u2019. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington\u2019s megaphones on the editorial pages and political columns, the Special Report is a thoughtful essay that raises many important issues, even as it is fundamentally flawed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}