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AI will transform capitalism – but how?
Publisher description: Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like
The Guardian | Sep 13, 2026 | Paul Mason
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In July, Dean Ball, head of strategic futures at OpenAI, claimed China’s advocacy of open-source models of artificial intelligence might bring about “full AI communism”. For China, Ball complained, “AI is a public good which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure’. ” This, he concluded, “strikes me as a dystopian hellscape”. Though I relish Ball’s discomfort, I doubt the rise of rival Chinese models – Kimi, Qwen and Deepseek – heralds the end of capitalism. But the job-destroying quality of AI makes it different from every previous technological revolution.
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