A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value

Rella, Ludovico; Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm

Abstract

How have socio-technical practices in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) communities shaped one another and society more widely? This article explores the different and overlapping materialities, practices, spaces and places that the two most hyped technologies of the 21st century are impacting and evolving within. Employing the concept and analogy of “the stack”, we show how Machine Learning (ML), and crypto-assets each developed separately and yet become deeply interconnected. In doing so, we pluralise the concept of the stack to trace how two techno-communities have cometh, collided and colluded (Three Cs) in ways that pose varying implications for labour and the enactment of value in hyper capitalist tech-driven economic geographies.

Citation

Rella, L., & Campbell-Verduyn, M. (2024). A stack made in heaven? Exploring AI-blockchain intersections and their implications for labour and value. Progress in Economic Geography, 2(2), Article 100026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100026

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 22, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Oct 29, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-12
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 3, 2024
• Journal: Progress in Economic Geography
• Electronic ISSN: 2949-6942
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Article Number: 100026
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100026
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3199041