It would be cool to see more tech worker solidarity, but I feel tech workers in particular have the most animosity towards each other, at least in big tech. Of course this is the result of how these companies are structured, but it's hard to get that across to them.
cimbazarov
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I've started contemplating if a butlerian jihad is more likely than a proletarian revolution at this point with how little class conscious there is in America.
It is interesting to see that even tech-bros can see some of the contradictions in AI. I do feel it's easier to organize them against AI rather than against billionaires who own it (since in the tech bro mind they are already on the cusp of being one of the billionaires).
Also if I could indulge in some sci-fi speculation for a bit: what if the "AI takeover" follows one of the stories in I, Robot (the book) where there's a official who is an AI but it's not clear to the public that he is, creating this environment of ambiguity. Then we have more "AI's" masquerading as real people (take the recent event with the AI Instagram profiles) until everyone we are surrounded by is an AI before we even know it.