Such a good piece! It baffles me too that Marxists, socialists, labor-focused academics, etc. is not pouring over the issues around AI—if ever there was a threat to the proletariat (and especially the Western, bourgeois, left-leaning section), this is it! The trajectory seems clearly to be replacing human labor with machines, and in so doing concentrating wealth and power in a way and at a speed I think we have never seen before.
Edit/addition: The Hollywood writers’ strike is actually a promising example that some labor-focused people and organizations are on top of this.
Such a good piece! It baffles me too that Marxists, socialists, labor-focused academics, etc. is not pouring over the issues around AI—if ever there was a threat to the proletariat (and especially the Western, bourgeois, left-leaning section), this is it! The trajectory seems clearly to be replacing human labor with machines, and in so doing concentrating wealth and power in a way and at a speed I think we have never seen before.
Edit/addition: The Hollywood writers’ strike is actually a promising example that some labor-focused people and organizations are on top of this.