ITS Seminar Series: Professor Cecilia Rikap
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The Institute for Technoscience and Society Seminar Series is taking place on March 26th at 11:00am EST featuring Professor Cecilia Rikap from the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, United Kingdom.
Zoom Link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97244223645?pwd=SnbWfulmpV7Lg7MscWHbDtdQoSDsKD.1
Join us for Professor Rikaps Talk:
Talk: The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud The worlds largest corporations are knowledge and information predators. They put monopolized intangibles at the service of widespread control and ruling of workers, users, subcontractors, suppliers, franchises, platforms, smaller innovating companies, universities and public research organizations. They are private rulers that, like public powers, co-evolve and engage in asymmetric diplomatic relations among them. These ties have been strengthened with artificial intelligence and the cloud. Corporate powers split the spoils -value, data and knowledge- by engaging in knowledge exchange relations ultimately controlled by cloud hegemons -Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Capitalism is a hierarchical network of cross-networks. Markets, production and innovation evolve as interconnected networks controlled by corporate rulers. The frenemy relations established among leading corporations shape the whole network in their favour. Disney, LOral, McDonalds, Nestl, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Siemens, Toyota, Visa, Walmart, Netflix, Mercado Libre, Uber and many more, plan portions of capitalism and expand value capture from their spheres of control using data and AI running on Big Tech clouds. Corporate power in the AI and cloud age is tailor-made and cloud hegemons exercise it even other corporate rulers. They plan the development and conception of AI; they create narratives, shape regulations and orchestrate the future.
Speaker Bio: Cecilia Rikap (PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires) is associate professor in Economics and Head of Research at IIPP- UCL. Until joining UCL, she was a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE) at City, University of London and programme director of the BSc in IPE at the same university. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentinas national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Universit de Technologie de Compigne.
Cecilias research is rooted in the international political economy of science and technology and the economics of innovation. She currently studies the rising concentration of intangible assets leading to the emergence of intellectual monopolies, among others from digital and pharma industries, the distribution of intellectual (including data) rents, resulting geopolitical tensions and the effects of knowledge assetization on the knowledge commons and development. She has published two books on these topics. 1) Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism uncovered (Routledge), recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition. 2) The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order (Palgrave), co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall, focuses on the artificial intelligence race and clashes of power between the US and Chinese Big Tech, the US state and the Chinese states. Her recent work includes corporate planning of global production and innovation systems driven by intellectual monopolization and how these leading corporations, in particular tech giants, are developing state-like features, thus reshaping core and peripheral states.
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Dayna L. Jeffrey (She/Her) PhD Candidate Science & Technology Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies YORK UNIVERSITY
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