AI Socialism: Who Will Own the Automated Future?
Zhao Levi has evolved from publishing an Anti-AI Manifesto to proposing a Democratic Socialists of America working group to address the ownership of automated technology. The article argues that this shift invites necessary deliberation on how a democratic socialist society should govern and share the gains from artificial intelligence. It suggests that a viable future requires combining resistance to corporate AI with the development of worker-managed alternatives that ensure public access and democratic control.
- ▪Zhao Levi published a self-critique in September 2026 calling for a nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group to develop proposals for the 2027 convention.
- ▪The author advocates for a libertarian left perspective that emphasizes direct worker self-government and syndicalist organization to make technology answerable to the public.
- ▪Proposed practical applications for dual power include union-governed clinical tools, public AI tutors in schools, and municipal utilities managing shared energy software.
- ▪The article distinguishes between immediate resistance to harmful AI uses and the constructive building of socially owned systems that can eventually supersede private firms.
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| Canonical URL | https://cosmopolity.substack.com/p/ai-socialism-who-will-own-the-automated |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:35:44 +0000 |
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AI Socialism: Who Will Own the Automated Future?Zhao Levi’s journey from an “Anti-AI Manifesto” to a proposed DSA working group opens a larger question: Can workers govern the machines that may one day make wage labor optional?Robert ChapmanSep 24, 20262ShareBy Robert Chapman Brooking | Cosmopolity The name is deliberately provocative. Zhao Levi’s Anti-AI Manifesto opens with a denunciation of the artificial intelligence industry, then spends much of its length imagining what artificial intelligence could do for a liberated society. Levi wants a future in which machines relieve people of necessary toil, creativity flourishes without the threat of destitution, and the productive capacity of AI belongs to everyone.
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