Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future
Sam Altman’s vision of a “gentle singularity” where AI gradually transforms society presents an alluring future of abundance and human flourishing. His optimism about AI’s p…
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
Artificial intelligence and future of capitalism from a Marxist, and a neoclassical, point of view
What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy, from the Marxist point of view?
The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here | Compact
Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
AGENTWORLD | *
An exploration of planetary intelligence, tracing how computation and cosmology—from ancient mechanisms to AI—reshape Earth and its possible futures.
Amazon Created The Socialist Dream
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust
Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
Imperial State Capitalism
A new geopolitics is shaping the development of AI and the energy transition.
On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture
How AI has turned what was once a superpower into a liability.
Marxism in the Age of AI
Taking stock of the last three years of development in AI technology, Nicolas D. Villarreal argues that Artificial General Intelligence is a genuine possibility with major implications for the future of class struggle on Earth.
Automate the C-Suite - The Ideas Letter
Weatherby argues that Benanav’s and Morozov’s essays on AI and the left miss a deeper reality: Today’s AI is not a neutral tool operating within capitalism but the materialization of…
