Rather than facilitating labour processes, artificial intelligence and digital technologies deepen the surveillance and deskilling of workers, as well as the domination of capital.

Artificial intelligence is not a neutral innovation presented amidst the fog of technology fetishism; it is a digital instrument shaped by the profit, control, and warfare needs of monopoly capital.

The sources and increase of social wealth have been one of the most fundamental areas of interest since the birth of modern political economy. There had been debates on the source of value, surplus-value, profit or rent; on which type of work a new value can be created; issues such as which classes are economically productive.