Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Alyson and Breht wrestle with the possible rise of artificial general intelligence and its implications. Together they discuss the Silicon Valley Techno-Cult and their dark religious search for immortality, their hubristic attempts to "build god" and escape death, their neoliberal subjectivities and how that manifests in their work, how AI might manifest under the capitalist mode of production, the horrors and contradictions of "capitalism without workers", deflationary critiques of AI, humans as transitional creatures, consciousness and its complexities, intelligence without consciousness (philosophical zombies), Nietzchean nihilism, real religion and what it offers, embracing the inevitability of your own death, and much more!

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0:10.0	And so And so Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace. So on today's episode
0:20.1	we are going to have a sort of free-flowing organic conversation about something
0:25.7	that has been in the news a lot lately and has been in a lot of people's mind
0:28.7	lately and I think is you know gaining steam with regards to the discussions around it and unfortunately I think you know these
0:36.1	discussions we're going to be talking about related to artificial intelligence you know are often
0:40.8	discussed in in very narrow ways that I mean you know in mainstream
0:44.7	discourse take capitalism for granted and you know take this idea that these things
0:50.2	are are sort of good in their own right or abstract away from the material conditions in which they manifest.
0:55.9	And I hope this conversation with Allison can be a sort of kind of corrective to some of that,
1:00.3	as well as going deeper on the philosophical side of some of the things that artificial
1:05.4	intelligence, artificial general intelligence, etc. implies about our possible futures,
1:10.9	about who we are as conscious beings, about consciousness itself.
1:15.6	And so I think we can have a really interesting wide-ranging conversation on this that you don't
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