This almost reads as AI is from devil.
Luddites fought against automatic weaving stools - by destroying the machines. Reasoning: It is stealing our jobs.
Comics were sure to destroy our children's minds, because they wouldn't read real literature anymore (conveniently forgetting that only 100 years before that, reading was considered a plague of the youth and putting their minds into bad places).
Rock music is of the devil. If you play "Stairway to heaven" backwards, and squint your ears just right ...
Phones that memorise phone numbers? Surely it is brain rot if you are no longer forced to memorise phone numbers.
Social media? Work of the devil! Manipulates the minds, causes addiction, bad elections, and warts on the nose!
Cryptocurrency? Waste of energy, won't someone please think of the environment? Only used for crime!
3D printing? What if someone ghasp prints himself a gun?
And now it is AI. And when AI is normalised, and something new shows up, it will be that.
I would put AI into that same group. It is and will continue to be weaponized against you by people with more power than you.
For one, you, like many, misunderstand the Luddite movement. They didn’t break weaving frames because they were against technology, they broke them because they were being used to grossly devalue the work weavers used to earn their livelihood. There was a mass consolidation of textile manufacturing from small groups of tradespeople into a few very wealthy factory owners who used easily exploitable labor (like children) in very poor working conditions and paid unlivable wages to make low quality but cheap garments. The luddites weren’t against technology, they were against the way it was being used. They even only targeted factories that they thought were particularly exploitative, leaving the ones with fairer business practices alone. But they get mischaracterized as anti-technology, anti-progress…but maybe they just wanted to be able to live their lives well and support their families.
There’s really a lot to learn from the luddites and their historical context, and it really goes to show that history is truly cyclical.
It’s heralded as a tool for increasing efficiency (a western capitalism favorite euphemism for cancerous exploitation of the environment and humans) while neglecting it’s externalities, which includes destroying the jobs of the very people it stole the work from, and making you more reliant upon it, possibly to the point you forget how to do the things you use it for.
It’s a pretty devilish poisoned fruit.