Automation

Automation

• Automation: the future, but what future?

  

  We cannot consider automation without taking into account the mode of production in which it's operating, argues Nathan Street 

• Capitalism and technology: are robots going to take over - video

  

  At a London meeting, Marxist economist Michael Roberts discusses whether or not the robot takeover is inevitable, and would advancement lead to living standards improving or further exploitation

• The hype machine: employers and threats of automation

  

  The reality of automation and its impact on the labour market is a lot less dire for workers than it seems

• Automation and Basic Income: beyond the hype

  

  Basic Income is not a beyond left and right answer to automation, argues David Bush

• Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? – part two

  

  Michael Roberts explains why we would never get to a robotic society under capitalism

• Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? part one

  

  Robots will not end the contradictions within capitalist accumulation, argues Michael Roberts