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Par Bruno COLMANT, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Artificial intelligence’s rapid and almost daily progress and accessibility signals a profound industrial revolution. However, unlike previous ones (steam, oil, electricity, and nuclear), which slowly infiltrated the economy and political debates, the AI revolution is immediate and globalized. All socio-economic parameters will be disrupted. In the context of the industrial economy during the writing of Capital, Karl Marx (1818-1883) wrote that the worker’s skill becomes insignificant in the face of prodigious science. At that time, it was about the commodification of labor. Today, it is about the substitution of cognitive abilities.
The main question concerns the distribution of...
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