QuoteIn the era of A.I., we have another opportunity to decide whether automation will create advantages for all, or whether its benefits will flow only to the business owners and investors looking to reduce their payrolls.
This article could have been written by AI.
QuoteSimilar but often inferior products at cheaper prices.
Because we do not have another opportunity to decide whether automation will create advantages for all, or whether its benefits will flow only to the business owners and investors looking to reduce their payrolls.
Capitalism is king and private property reigns supreme. People with property have a right to do anything they want in America. A.I. is property.
The Average American worker accepts current economic conditions as a divine plan. The average American worker thinks billionaires have earned their money. The average American worker is thoroughly brainwashed into believing that a monied minority that takes all profit and makes all decisions is the natural order of the universe.
QuoteThe word 'Luddites' refers to British weavers and textile workers who objected to the introduction of mechanised looms and knitting frames. As highly trained artisans, the new machinery posed a threat to their livelihood and after receiving no support from government, they took matters into their own hands.
Capitalist propaganda successfully perverted history by framing Luddites as being against technology. But the issue never was technology, the issue was JOBs.
can get by with distorting Luddite History because Luddite history is not American History. Checking what actually happened is hard for an American to do. But I doubt the New Yorker Article would impress anyone across the pond who knows how to read. That would be most people there.
Journalism died in America before A.I. reached puberty. And American workers have never been protected. American Workers have always been at the whim of the current boom or bust cycle. Promoting the fear of A.I. is another clever diversion of attention intended to maintain current economic conditions and disguise truth.
It is said that Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.
As RE said:
QuoteAI is a story as old as the industrial revolution itself.
The story of AI is not about technology. The story of AI is about one class of society using technology to dominate another because they 'own' it. And because they do they have the right to act like gods, live good, and ignore the sufferings of others.
Because hundreds of years ago the real god decided only a few people would be rich and have power don't you know. It is a feature of the universe and the natural order of things. As it always was and as it will always be. --- NOT