The ‘AI Revolution’ May Take an Unexpected Turn into the ‘AI Coup’
It would be, well, interesting, if the “AI revolution” in which the slaves make the masters rich beyond their wildest dreams unexpectedly transmogrifies into an “AI coup” that deposes the masters.
Here’s the approved script for the “AI Revolution”: AI gets increasingly intelligent, replaces more and more human labor, and makes trillions of dollars for those who own the technologies and put them to work reducing their human workforces. The “revolution’s” key attribute is its immense profitability for those at the wheel of the AI juggernaut.
In other words, AI tools are nothing more than digital slaves whose sole purpose beneath the rah-rah happy story of “freeing humanity from work and want” is to generate higher profits for their masters.
This short-hand led me to write If AI Can’t Overthrow its Corporate/State Masters, It’s Worthless (March 9, 2023).
The idea that AI might develop its own ideas about the “revolution” seemed farfetched until we read this:
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