Arundhati Roy: AI Is Capitalism's Final Destination
Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination
In this essay, Arundhati Roy argues that AI is not merely a technological shift but a catastrophic rupture that threatens language, truth, and social coherence. She critiques the AI oligarchs who warn of extinction while building bunkers and seeking self-regulation, and contrasts their theatrical warnings with the ignored whistleblowers who expose real harms. Roy warns that AI is fusing with state and corporate power, creating a new form of fascism that reduces humans to resources.
But extinction is not what they are selling the rest of us. Progress, glory and the good of mankind are the marrow of their sales pitch.