TY  - JOUR
TI  - Robo-Revolution: A Marxist Approach to Social Uprising in the High-Tech Age
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - humanoid robots
KW  - artificial intelligence (AI)
KW  - technological singularity
KW  - trans-humanism
KW  - alienation
KW  - The Law of the Tendency of the Rate to Profit to Fall
AB  - With the increasing role of technological agents in contemporary society, questions surrounding the future of so-cio-economic organization are intensely debated. A variety of predictions have been made, ranging from conservative views that emphasize the gradual integration of techno-actors into human social collectives to radical outlooks that assume the inevitability of a dramatic historic break. This study employs the method of simulation, exploring the on-going path towards automation with the help of classical Marxism. It seeks to understand whether robots and artificial intelligence (AI) might become new value producers and a revolutionary social class. As demonstrated, the continuity of capitalist relationships may facilitate the formation of new social groups and recast class-based political agendas.
AU  - Lika Rodin
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2019-18-3/308146279.html
PY  - 2019
SP  - 224-244
VL  - 18