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fromFortune
5 days ago

Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz says not only can AI take your job, it'll make the 'tech bro' class richer while doing so | Fortune

AI threatens to increase inequality by concentrating profits while displacing workers, requiring deliberate government intervention to redirect its trajectory toward broader societal benefit.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything

When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it's because it is deeply unsettled. I think that, y'know this promise of an artificial intelligence future, is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled - AI is already here, the end is already here - then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.
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