AI is touted as today’s great transformational force that will reshape our societies and economies beyond recognition. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive politics have moulded AI from its inception, which serves to reinforce hierarchies between i...

AI is touted as today’s great transformational force that will reshape our societies and economies beyond recognition. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive politics have moulded AI from its inception, which serves to reinforce hierarchies between industries, in labour markets and across the globe.