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AI: Alienating Intelligence
They say that the machines are coming for our jobs, but when we look behind the hype we see the same forces of capitalism that have existed for centuries, writes the FUTURE OF WORK GROUP
The alienation brought about by AI is not only alienation from the satisfying craft of making high-quality products at work, but alienation from society: through perpetuating historical biases as shown above and by undermining our democratic position in that society
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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IN many ways, the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems by the capitalist class parallels the adoption of other technologies like machinery and robotics.
The capitalists identify that their business is dependent on the availability of skills that are embodied in the workers and seek to divide the labour, automating the parts they perceive as “skilled” to keep wages down.
Quality is not as important as profit through exploitation: just as the mass-produced industrial commodities were less refined than the artisan-produced work of craft masters, so the knowledge work of a computer is lower quality than that of a skilled expert.
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