Introduction: Special Issue Artificial intelligence through the lenses of Marxism and critical thinking

This special issue of Eptic is focused specifically on the technology of artificial intelligence (AI). For all his technological acuity, Marx could not have foreseen the rise of the contemporary approach to AI called machine learning (ML). And while there is a long tradition of Marxist research on technology, there is, of yet, relatively little on AI specifically. We hope the inspiring and thought provoking articles published in this special issue can shed light on the dialectics of artificial intelligence.