Rage Against the Autonomous Machine: The Dialectics of Artificial Intelligence and How to Survive the AI Revolution

Rage Against the Autonomous Machine is not a warning about some distant future-it is a wake-up call for now.If AI is being “aligned,” the real question is: aligned with whom?With humanity’s deepest needs, or with the private interests of those who control the infrastructure?To reclaim agency, we must understand how we arrived here.AI expert Thanos Panagopoulos takes readers on a sweeping journey through the long quest for autonomous machines, tracing the historical forces that shaped the present, and the political economy now shaping what comes next.Engaging frameworks such as technofeudalism, techno-imperialism, neo-mercantilism, platform capitalism, and surveillance capitalism, he cuts through Silicon Valley hype and apocalyptic fatalism alike and names the emerging order: autonomous capital, techno-natural monopolies, and a new ruling class-the Intelligarchs.Drawing on both technical expertise and dialectics, Rage Against the Autonomous Machine equips readers with the concepts to th