The Limits of Automation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v22i57.1166Keywords:
Automation, accelerationism, postcapitalism, artificial intelligence, technologyAbstract
In recent years, the debate on the automation of production has intensified, which among its many aspects contains an under-addressed one, which is fundamentally normative in nature. In discussion with a series of current approaches that advocate full automation of production to give rise to a post-capitalist society, the objective of this article is to critically think about the ethical-political limits of automation. On the one hand, although automation is a means to achieve greater free time and material abundance, these goals are not absolute and may contradict other equally desirable objectives. On the other hand, current automation follows a pattern that would threaten certain human capacities whose development is essential for an emancipatory policy.
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