"Big tech has boatloads of money and boatloads of lobbyists, but big tech also has admitted, either implicitly or explicitly, that their goal is to reduce the economic leverage of humans to zero. And they don't have a plan to ensure humans' ability to advocate for their rights and interests, which will go to zero soon after their economic leverage goes to zero."
"When we lose our jobs, our money, and with them our ability to influence lobbies and politicians. Despite their seeming innocuousness, chatbots and image generators have already replaced everyone from graphic designers to customer service representatives. Big tech has been heavily hinting at job loss for a long time, and once the AI revolution got underway, the head-rolling started, ironically, at the top. In 2023 tech workers had the hardest twelve months since the dot-com crash of the early 2000s; 260,000 jobs disappeared."
Big tech companies prioritize rapid AI development without implementing adequate safeguards. Industry actors possess large financial and lobbying resources and pursue strategies that reduce humans' economic leverage toward zero, without plans to preserve humans' capacity to advocate for rights and interests. Economic leverage erodes as people lose jobs and income, diminishing influence over lobbies and politicians. Chatbots and image generators have already replaced roles from graphic designers to customer service representatives. Major technology firms conducted mass layoffs in 2023 and early 2024, and some companies cut trust-and-safety and ethical-AI teams while reallocating funds toward products and profits.
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