https://cpress.org/categories/artificial-intelligence/ Recent content in Artificial Intelligence on Citizens' Press Hugo en Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://cpress.org/post/occ-tcc/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://cpress.org/post/occ-tcc/ <div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="headline-1"> Introduction (and some clarity) </h2> <div id="outline-text-headline-1" class="outline-text-2"> <p> Why bring Organic Composition of Capital (OCC) and Technical Composition of Capital (TCC) into the analysis of AI?</p> <p> The shift in software development has been from a fairly balanced process of automation and capital investment (growth in OCC) to a sudden increase in machine investment at the expense of employment (TCC). The explicit goal of these large AI tech firms companies is full automation of this workforce.</p> https://cpress.org/post/pro-worker-ai/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://cpress.org/post/pro-worker-ai/ <div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="headline-1"> Technology as discrete forms of automation vs augmentation </h2> <div id="outline-text-headline-1" class="outline-text-2"> <p> First, the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/building-pro-worker-ai/">Brookings report</a> identifies five categories of technology:</p> <ul> <li>Labor-augmenting</li> <li>Capital-augmenting</li> <li>Automating</li> <li>Expertise-levelling</li> <li>New task-creating</li> </ul> <p>Their main focus is the call for for “New task-creating” tools for business to allow these firms to make nice choices for workers to promote augmentation.</p> <p> The first mistake that they make is that these “categories” are not distinct/isolated. As I have outlined in my presentations, they are part of a spectrum/continuum real firms follow in the introduction of automation.</p>