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Intervention — “For a Political Geography of Artificial Intelligence: Fighting Ghost Work, Exploitation, and the Making of a Global Digital Underclass” - Antipode Online

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Richard Kirk (University of California, Los Angeles) “The worker becomes all the more a mere appendage of the machine…” —Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848 The Fetish of Autonomy: AI, Hidden Labor, and the Political Geography of the Digital World Order From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini, from facial recognition tools in […]

Richard Kirk (University of California, Los Angeles) “The worker becomes all the more a mere appendage of the machine…” —Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848 The Fetish of Autonomy: AI, Hidden Labor, and the Political Geography of the Digital World Order From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini, from facial recognition tools in airports to AI hiring assistants and predictive policing systems, artificial intelligence is increasingly presented as an autonomous force—intelligent, immaterial, totally unburdened by human labor. This framing is not only seductive; it is ideo

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