potential set-up for a short paper — the post-capitalist future of AI

[Joe Corneli]

A mash-up here suggests itself:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

"As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?"

http://www.metafuture.org/sarkar/sarkar-historiography-transcendance.htm

"In Sarkar's theory of history there are four classes: workers (shudras), warriors (ksattriyas), intellectuals (vipras), and accumulators of capital (vaeshyas).  Each class can be perceived not merely as a power configuration, but as a way of knowing the world, as a paradigm, episteme or deep structure, if you will.  In Sarkar's language this is collective psychology or varna. Each varna comes into power bringing in positive necessary changes, but overtime exploits and then dialectically creates the conditions for the next varna."