A recording of the talk “Socialism after AI“, which was organised by the London School of Economics’ Ralph Miliband programme and the Alternatives to Capitalism initiative, that had Evgeny Morozov as the speaker and was chaired by Lea Ypi of the London School of Economics, has been uploaded to the LSE YouTube Channel.
A summary of the talk can be found below:
The old socialist calculation debate asked whether markets or planners could allocate resources more rationally. But neoliberalism long ago shifted the terrain from calculation to creativity, experimentation and worldmaking — and AI now radicalises that shift by enclosing the infrastructures of knowledge, culture, judgment and imagination. This lecture, by Evgeny Morozov, argues that AI exposes a deeper blind spot in socialist thought: the absence of a robust theory of technologically-mediated action.
The Left has struggled to grasp how human capacities, state power and technical infrastructures make one another inside the capitalist world-system — and how that same process might become a path from dependency to emancipation. From Europe’s search for AI sovereignty to the Global South’s long experience of technological dependence, the question is no longer only who owns the machines, but who controls the infrastructures through which societies learn, create, remember, govern and make worlds.
You can watch the video here.