AI does not automate shit. It can augment human productivity but needs human supervision. If companies don’t know what to do with the additional capacity of their workers, they can simply reduce working hours, while keeping salaries the same. After all, automation is supposed to make our lives easier.
The problem is that automation never actually translates into benefits for the workers. The capital owning class appropriates all the value while the rest of the population continues to toil.
AI does not automate shit. It can augment human productivity but needs human supervision. If companies don’t know what to do with the additional capacity of their workers, they can simply reduce working hours, while keeping salaries the same. After all, automation is supposed to make our lives easier.
AI automates all kinds of shit when applied correctly. https://archive.ph/K5rv7
The problem is that automation never actually translates into benefits for the workers. The capital owning class appropriates all the value while the rest of the population continues to toil.
That’s a blithely rose colored view of the situation.
The adoption of AI is for the very purpose of automation to eliminate the most persistent thorn in the Capitalist’s side: human labour.
“They” will never use AI to make your, or my, life easier.
I’m made a normative statement, not a descriptive one.
Ah yes, the “normative statement”: when economists want a word to cover their blithely ignorant statements.
I’m not an economist.
“Normative” just means “this how I think things should be”.