AI and the capitalist space economy

IF 2.2 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

SPACE AND POLITY Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/13562576.2021.1985852

Luis F. Alvarez León

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fuelled concerns ranging from ‘existential risk for humanity’, framed as evolutionary competition with machines, to predictions of the ‘end of work’ via widespread substitution of humans by robots. Yet these extreme scenarios tend to operate at the intractable scale of ‘humanity' and lack a geographically nuanced conceptual scaffolding. This article proposes such a scaffolding, starting with a conceptual dyad that is core to the geographical tradition: place and space. This perspective is intended to inform and situate debates about the role of AI in the construction and transformation of the capitalist space economy.

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人工智能和资本主义空间经济

人工智能(AI)的兴起引发了各种担忧，从“人类存在的风险”，被认为是与机器的进化竞争，到机器人广泛取代人类的“工作终结”预测。然而，这些极端情景往往是在难以驾驭的“人性”尺度上运作的，缺乏地理上细微差别的概念框架。本文提出了这样一个框架，从地理传统的核心概念二元开始:地点和空间。这一观点旨在为关于人工智能在资本主义空间经济的建设和转型中的作用的辩论提供信息和定位。

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来源期刊

SPACE AND POLITY GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.