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Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean yes, but also no
The job apocalypse is absolutely not something to forget.
It's a much greater threat given it will require us to change the world economic system to one that doesn't require everyone to have a job to survive. The alternative? Everyone in slums and poverty.
The media will be desperate to point you to anything other than that because it's an existential threat to their owners.
A little surprising to see this from the Guardian given they have a different ownership model to most outlets, but I guess it's a good reminder that all media will defend money if push comes to shove
Honestly wondering... why not? So far there is no evidence that an LLM can replace a worker of any kind, and all layoffs attributed to "AI" have not proven to be anything other than typical layoffs attributed to corporate greed.
Indeed. It's all a shell game to crush the power of labor (particularly in the tech industry) and pump up stock prices. It's definitely enshittifying work for a lot of people, but an apocalypse it is not. All the nigh-eschatological talk comes from the mouths of specious tech CEOs trying to keep the scam going.