AI automation is enclosure: the case for data rent modelled on ground rent
Taking the claims of Artificial Intelligence firms seriously implies that these firms now benefit from legal defaults and vacuums that allow them to enclose economically relevant intellectual capacity and therefore cause mass displacement of labour. This process is carried out unilaterally and witho...
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| description | Taking the claims of Artificial Intelligence firms seriously implies that these firms now benefit from legal defaults and vacuums that allow them to enclose economically relevant intellectual capacity and therefore cause mass displacement of labour. This process is carried out unilaterally and without compensation, and thus likely results in the pauperisation of a significant proportion of people worldwide. Thomas Paine’s analysis of land enclosures provides one way to think of enclosures of economically relevant intellectual capacity, and points to a universal basic income drawing from a data tax as a right derived from this enclosure. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-101e2e8a53584070b87cf64a80995ace2025-08-20T02:31:43ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Law Open2752-61352024-12-01389090110.1017/elo.2024.48AI automation is enclosure: the case for data rent modelled on ground rentJai Vipra0https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6220-0154Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USATaking the claims of Artificial Intelligence firms seriously implies that these firms now benefit from legal defaults and vacuums that allow them to enclose economically relevant intellectual capacity and therefore cause mass displacement of labour. This process is carried out unilaterally and without compensation, and thus likely results in the pauperisation of a significant proportion of people worldwide. Thomas Paine’s analysis of land enclosures provides one way to think of enclosures of economically relevant intellectual capacity, and points to a universal basic income drawing from a data tax as a right derived from this enclosure.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2752613524000481/type/journal_articleArtificial intelligencedata taxuniversal basic incomeThomas Paine |
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| title | AI automation is enclosure: the case for data rent modelled on ground rent |
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