In the 25/26 academic year I’ll be leading a reading group on the political economy of AI, using this fabulous syllabus put together by the political scientist Henry Farrell:
- Week 1 – Different Stories about the AI Transition
- Week 2 – The Empirics of the AI Transition
- Week 3 – The Business Models of the AI Transition
- Week 4 – Capital
- Week 5 – Chips
- Week 6 – Energy and Material Resources
- Week 7 – Human Knowledge
- Week 8 – Market
- Week 9 – State
- Week 10 – Culture
- Week 11 – AGI
The intention is to meet on the third Wednesday of every month from 3pm-5pm (apart from December) on the University of Manchester campus. If you’d like to take part then please get in touch and I’ll send you a calendar invite with full details.
