Knowledge-Based Labor Force,AI Applications and the"Deindustrialization"of Capitalism
Knowledge-based labor force is the labor force specializing in scientific research and technology development activities.The AI industry chain contains three levels,namely,the basic level,the technology level and the application level,which are respectively intended to realize the substitution of the knowledge-based labor force's triple roles of transmitting and absorbing knowledge,understanding and creating knowledge,and disseminating and applying knowledge.AI is essentially the objectification of human labor,which is not a"new labor force"but a"new means of production".AI as a means of production has new characteristics:it needs to be combined with traditional means of production to form a socialized system of means of pro-duction;its value is determined by the commodity value of data and the amount of direct labour input;its intangible loss and value compensation depend on the speed of digital technological change.Capital achieves savings in individual production pro-cess labor time and regulation of total surplus labor time through the appropriation of AI.Specifically,AI applications transfer monopoly power based on the scarcity of knowledge-based labor from traditional industrial capital to capital in the AI sector,transfer wage labor attached to industrial capital into precarious labor attached to digital capital.AI controls and distorts the dis-tribution of total social labor time in accordance with the need for capital multiplication.Thus,as a technology dependent on tra-ditional industrial capital,in a capitalist mode of production where the profit motive is the driver of capital accumulation and eco-nomic growth,AI will not change capitalism's already deeply unbalanced economic structure,but will instead intensify capital-ism's inherent contradictions.
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