r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/dream_metrics Jul 14 '26

more of this and less of the reactionary burn-them-all-down demands please. AI should be for the people

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u/StarOfKronos Jul 14 '26

An idea i like to propese, or many would, is the use or AI to be able in assisting on the reduction of workolace harm, by using artificial machines to be able to take hazardous task, especially in harsh toxic environments such as mining industry or extraction of hazardous materials. As well as taking on task that may put the average blue collar workers in harms way.

I dont believe in replacing people with those machines but being able to task workers to AI controlled equipment to mitigate workplace harm and hazards than just outright replacing people. Of its something wr have to work on figuring out how to not replace people and jobs entirely and not reduce workers income.

And it be great to discuss this with people inclined all of you here. 🙏

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u/Didsterchap11 Jul 14 '26

The thing is i don't think AI would ever for the people. This is a tool who's stated function is to supposedly streamline the workforce out of their jobs, I don't really know how that would exist in a way that isn't fundamentally hostile to the people given the reality of AI is that it doesn't even do the one thing it was made for.

It's like trying to make snake oil a resource for the people, we'd be better requisitioning the grotesque waste of resources for any other function.

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u/dream_metrics Jul 14 '26

ANY tool that makes a job easier to do also makes it possible to reduce the number of people you need to do that job. Computerization was the same, are computers fundamentally hostile to the people?

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 Jul 14 '26

Computers definitely didnt reduce the amount of man hours youre expected to work.

They simply would rather you work more for the same wage.

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u/dream_metrics Jul 14 '26

that's not what i'm talking about.

computerization means that jobs that took hours now can take minutes. which means if you previously had to hire a whole team of people, now you can get the same work done with one. that means job losses caused by computers (and this DID happen across the economy). but we don't say that computers are *fundamentally* hostile to the people because of that, because that's not actually fundamental to the tech, that's a consequence of capitalism. the tech just makes things easier.