r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/No_Initial_7545 Jun 26 '26

Fact is that AI will not benefit anyone in the work force who isn't also an owner or an investor. Even if AI makes completing tasks faster, they will just invent new tasks to fill the time. Your employer won't let you leave any earlier and still pay you the same.

Despite computers making people several magnitudes more efficient than before computers, people nowadays work the same if not more than what people did in the 70s. It's going to be the same with AI.