关键词: 马克思, 劳动价值论, 资本主义内生矛盾, 人工智能的资本主义应用, 劳动异化

Abstract: Marx's labor theory of value reveals the inherent contradiction of capitalism: in its pursuit of surplus value, capital, on the one hand, strives to reduce labor time to a minimum, while, on the other, makes labor time the sole measure and source of wealth. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its capitalist application have intensified this contradiction. AI further replaces human labor, causing the creation of commodities to depend increasingly on the leverage effect on objectified labor rather than on the direct exploitation of present “living labor”; the speed and scope at which it displaces wage laborers far exceed the job compensation generated by expanded reproduction. The substantial reduction of necessary labor time and the exponential growth in the volume of products bring AI unprecedentedly close to the free service of natural forces, creating the material possibility for the emancipation of labor. However, as the sole source of value is gradually eroded, capital still strives to measure the immense power afforded by technology in terms of labor time and turns AI into a sophisticated instrument for deepening exploitation in order to relieve the pressure of a declining average rate of profit, thereby giving rise to numerous new forms of alienation. The capitalist application of AI does not falsify the labor theory of value; on the contrary, it further confirms the historically transient nature of the value form and of the capitalist mode of production that produces it.

Key words: Marx, the labor theory of value, inherent contradictions of capitalism, the capitalist application of artificial intelligence, alienation of labor