askchapo

The AI bubble is a big part of the west's recent belligerence I believe.

1. AI needs huge quantities or cheap inputs (energy, compute and manpower) to create the fully automated workerless dystopia the capitalists want. Where to get all this from except by colonising the most energy rich and unstable region on earth?

2. AI is sucking up a truly enormous portion of western and petrocapital (GCC countries invested heavily into American tech). All this capital needs returns. So where to get returns from? Ordinary consumers don't pay nearly enough to make AI profitable. Only the government's war and surveillance branches are reliable enough customers. Corporate customers have their own profits to care about. But the government just wants inhuman unaccountable kill bots. And with such new toys, the government's barrier to violence is lowered. Just in time for managing the current revolutionary juncture.

3. The less workers there are, the more valuable workers become. The less capital there is in the world, the more valuable capital becomes. And the capitalists know right now know that capital is overvalued compared to labor. Have you seen the nonsensical stock prices? And have you seen the low birthrates? The massive inflation/injection of capital in the recovery after covid was great. Free money for capitalists! But there is a fear of a market correction. If companies are overvalued, there is room to go down. But if you destroy or damage competitors and cement your monopoly capital status again? What better way to do this than seizing control of Industrial inputs for yourself and deny them to others.

4. The Ukraine war and Al-Aqsa flood operations opened the floodgates for further escalations in war. White supremacy is no longer safe! Anyone paying attention can tell this. So the calculus on war has changed. Losses and chaos becomes more accepted. A conservative geopolitical strategy is no longer favoured.

Last point is not related to AI