Don’t Fear Artificial Intelligence, Question the Business Model: How Surveillance Capitalists Use Media to Invade Privacy, Disrupt Moral Autonomy, and Harm Democracy

This paper analyzes the causes, consequences, and logic of surveillance capitalism, delineating how behavioral surplus became the latest form of accumulation and questioning its ethical, legal, and material implications. The purpose of this project is to provide a decisively human response to an oth...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of communication inquiry Jg. 49; H. 1; S. 6 - 26
1. Verfasser: Jones, Joseph
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2025
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Schlagworte:
Accumulation
Artificial intelligence
Autonomy
Bioaccumulation
Capitalism
Democracy
Economic systems
Ethics
Human performance
Human response
Intelligence gathering
Mass media
Political economy
Privacy
Psychology
Social institutions
Surveillance
Surveillance systems
Technocracy
political economy
digital media
surveillance capitalism
commodification
care ethics
artificial intelligence
ISSN:0196-8599, 1552-4612
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Zusammenfassung:This paper analyzes the causes, consequences, and logic of surveillance capitalism, delineating how behavioral surplus became the latest form of accumulation and questioning its ethical, legal, and material implications. The purpose of this project is to provide a decisively human response to an otherwise reductive, totalizing political economic system that uses equally reductive technology. Using history, political economy, and media ethics, it shows how surveillance capitalists use artificial intelligence (AI) to disrupt the privacy necessary for identity work and distort the moral autonomy necessary for democratic worldmaking. Exploiting human psychology and emotional vulnerabilities, surveillance capitalists interfere with our ability to become better versions of our personal and collective selves. We must therefore reject surveillance capitalism and embrace a more inconclusive understanding of democracy informed by care. While experts and technocrats can endlessly debate the potential outcomes and possibilities, the challenges of AI and an abusive surveillance capitalist system must ultimately be answered by a caring citizenry with equally resilient social institutions.
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ISSN:0196-8599
1552-4612
DOI:10.1177/01968599241235209