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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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The argument that workers should capture AI instead of the ruling class is interesting, but let me ask you.
Has there been a single technology entirely captured and for the workers in history, ever? Has not every piece of technology been used primarily by the working class, yes, but the direction it develops and what value it produces is decided by the ruling class? Always has been unless we can remove them from controlling the mode of production..
I think China is an interesting example of this, where the worker's party controls the majority of the economy and wouldn't let a program like DeepSeek threaten to unemploy half of it's economy (America does probably have a larger segment dedicated to programming, though, silicon valley and all). Even then, the average worker there has more safety nets.
No, technology has no ideology, which is why we shouldn't be opposed to using the tools that the ruling class uses against us. The chinese communists didn't win the civil war without using guns or without studying military tactics and logistics.
Technology absolutely has an ideology. All technology produces winners and losers, complicates previous tasks while making some easier, and overlaps heavily with futurism. If tech doesn't have an ideology, then we would say Luddites and Amish are merely social clubs, and not social movements.
people do ideology, not tech. tech can be used to serve an ideological purpose, but this does not mean that tech has an ideology, it is the people using it that do. To quote michael parenti:
Luddites and the amish refusing to use tech is not due to tech discriminating them, but because their ideology discriminates tech, sometimes as absurd as saying that tech is the devil.
tech is built on laws of nature, think of gravity, does gravity act differently on an anarchist than it does on a libertarian? absolutely not.
I'm not advocating for primitivism or reactionary views against using it. I'm trying to point out that people aren't going to embrace or accept this technology as much when it does more harm than good and will continue to do so just as the existence of Linux or other open-source projects doesn't impede capitalism or it's destruction in anyway. As this tech is being utilized in an ideological purpose, it will always be utilized more effectively and powerfully than any open-source case under the dominant ideology who controls the economy.
If there is a clear, distinct use-case of this technology that benefits our cause and doesn't harm workers, great! The one example of it being used in that news channel rainpizza mentioned is reasonable.