From Das Kapital to Data Capital: AI as a potential new frontier for the exploitation of the working class

The digital revolution was sold to us as a tool for liberation. Instead, it’s becoming the ultimate weapon for boss-class surveillance and the extraction of ‘data capital’. ​The relationship between capital and labour has undergone a fundamental shift since Karl Marx put pen to paper for Das Kapital. Marx famously analysed how the ruling class […] By Thanasi Hassoulas