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AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism (danmcquillan.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The real issue is not only that AI doesn't work as advertised, but the impact it will have before this becomes painfully obvious to everyone. AI is being used as form of 'shock doctrine', where the sense of urgency generated by an allegedly world-transforming technology is used as an opportunity to transform social systems without democratic debate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

First of all, AI is a tool. But unlike a nuke the workers can have access to it, at least to some degree, allowing people to use it to deal with capitalists' AI.

The real issue is not only that AI doesn’t work as advertised, but the impact it will have before this becomes painfully obvious to everyone.

The impact on manual labor will take a while though (because it takes time to build all the robots that will be needed), so as everyone that can WFH gets automated forever all these people can be brought to our side to revolutionize society. It's eitheir that or hunger after all...