This paper analyzes the causes, consequences, and logic of surveillance capitalism, delineating how behavioral surplus became the latest form of accumulation and questioning its ethical, legal, and material implications. The purpose of this project is to provide a decisively human response to an otherwise reductive, totalizing political economic system that uses equally reductive technology. Using history, political economy, and media ethics, it shows how surveillance capitalists use artificial intelligence (AI) to disrupt the privacy necessary for identity work and distort the moral autonomy necessary for democratic worldmaking. Exploiting human psychology and emotional vulnerabilities, surveillance capitalists interfere with our ability to become better versions of our personal and collective selves. We must therefore reject surveillance capitalism and embrace a more inconclusive understanding of democracy informed by care. While experts and technocrats can endlessly debate the potential outcomes and possibilities, the challenges of AI and an abusive surveillance capitalist system must ultimately be answered by a caring citizenry with equally resilient social institutions.

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不要害怕人工智能，质疑商业模式：监控资本家如何利用媒体侵犯隐私、扰乱道德自主、危害民主

本文分析了监视资本主义的原因、后果和逻辑，描述了行为剩余如何成为最新的积累形式，并质疑其伦理、法律和物质影响。该项目的目的是对使用同样还原技术的还原性、总体性政治经济体系提供果断的人类反应。它利用历史、政治经济学和媒体伦理，展示了监视资本家如何利用人工智能 (AI) 破坏身份工作所需的隐私，并扭曲民主世界构建所需的道德自主权。监视资本家利用人类心理和情感脆弱性，干扰我们成为更好的个人和集体自我的能力。因此，我们必须拒绝监视资本主义，并接受对基于关怀的民主的更加不确定的理解。虽然专家和技术官僚可以无休止地争论潜在的结果和可能性，但人工智能和滥用监督的资本主义制度的挑战最终必须由有爱心的公民和同样有弹性的社会机构来应对。