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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.
Email daynaj@yorku.ca with any questions of concerns,
Dayna
Dayna L. Jeffrey (She/Her)
PhD Candidate Science & Technology Studies
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
YORK UNIVERSITY
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