{
  "id": 13179,
  "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03251-y",
  "title": "Capability determinism, energy and AI labour substitution",
  "summary": "Contemporary policy and media discourse on AI and labour follows a recurring pattern. A demonstration of model capability runs through an inference about workplace substitution to a distributional politics, with the variables that would decide the outcome treated as background. This paper names that pattern capability determinism situates it within Wyatt’s account of soft technological determinism, and reframes the substitution question as a unit-cost economics test. On the AI side, cost per tas",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-ai-society",
  "source_name": "AI & Society",
  "source_homepage": "https://link.springer.com/journal/146",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13179",
  "original_url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-03251-y",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}