How AI reshapes work while deepening global power imbalances

This cluster interrogates how AI-driven capitalism intensifies existing structures of exploitation, from war economies to precarious digital labor. One piece channels Naomi Klein’s critique of ‘disaster capitalism’ into the era of automated warfare and extraction, framing death and conflict as profitable datafied commodities. Another challenges Anthropic’s AI jobs study for ignoring workers in the Global South, where invisible labor underpins AI systems. A longer discussion on digital colonialism explores how Southern countries can resist becoming mere data mines and testing grounds, and instead build sovereign, just technological futures.