Guardian long-read: AI will rewrite who holds capitalism's keys, not erase them
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-13
A Guardian long-read examines how AI will transform capitalism, tracing the old fantasy—from Aristotle to Marx—of automation dissolving class itself. It cites OpenAI's Dean Ball complaining that China's open-source push could bring "full AI communism" with AI as state-provided digital public infrastructure; the author counters that Kimi, Qwen and DeepSeek's rise is a rival strategy to America's compute-hoarding model rather than capitalism's end. The core argument: AI will rewrite who trains the machines, who owns the data, and who shares the gains—outcomes still within our power to decide.
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