“AI exists to replace workers, not empower them. Even if AI can make you more productive, there is no business model in increasing your pay and decreasing your hours.
AI is about disciplining labor to decrease its share of an AI-using company's profits. AI exists to lower a company's wage-bill, at your expense, with the savings split between the your boss and an AI company.”
Louder for the governments at the back, spruiking sparkly new futurey jobs to persuade us to siphon our remaining water to cool their data centres: replacing old jobs with new jobs is not the business model here because of course it isn’t. Short term, this is about creating both worse jobs ( @pluralistic ‘s reverse centaurs) and ultimately mass #underwork.
