I liken the harms and social ills to factory farming, which is the single largest cause of pure suffering inflicted on any living being on the planet.

Factory farming is also killing the planet and its opposition (or at least advocation for severe moral regulations) is an ethical imperative.

Still, we cannot destroy it with a boycott, we cannot minimize its suffering through shame, and no amount of solidarity will remove its market presence.

It must be wretched from capital and seized for the people, and minimized or destroyed however that manifests.

I see a lot of this echoed in AI, in that anti AI advocacy that is dogmatic cannot work. It like many other industries must be put in the hands of the people before we can figure out what reeling it back looks like.

That's all in the future, and if we can agree that's what needs to happen, then we can hopefully engage in the discourse and material analysis dispassionately and with nuance, while also being kind to our fellow workers operating through the same unprecedented technology as the rest of us.