A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” Wall Street and Big Tech are running a huge hype machine to back up their massive, risky investment in A.I., pledging it will drive a “productivity surge,” meaning fewer workers and more profits. But workers can take heart that, so far, it’s mostly hot air. To date, A.I. is making few profits.
At the very minimum you should have better opsec for union busting if your unions are an actual threat. This involves tech in the 21st century.
AI is socialised labour but the tools have been privatised; the capitalist’s tractor still tills the farm. Organisers should develop frameworks on how to use these tools.
For the same reason we don’t use tractors in union organizing, we also don’t use AI.
Marxism beat ludditism more than a century ago. Appealing to reaction is not the progressive stance you think it is. One can only afford to be so backwards if the aim is class collaboration ie an understanding that a concession can be made to help stablise the western proleteriat in favour of a more potent imperialism.