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Comment by vitally3643 | Hacker News Reader

The explicit and overt messaging from AI companies in the West is directly and loudly claiming their goal is to put people out of work.

In a society where we've normalized "wage slave or death by starvation", yeah, you're gonna get backlash.

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I think you hit the nail on the head. In a winner take most society why would you expect the masses to embrace a technology that makes them losers?

Particularly when there is no plan for all the displaced folks who no longer have jobs. Essentially the brilliant plan seems to be to fire humans working their jobs and getting paid, replace them with "AI", give savings to the CEO or billionaire class, let the jobless people starve or something. Like, you don't need an AI Assistant to tell you that this plan will create backlash.

> In a society where we've normalized "wage slave or death by starvation"

Not just a society - the whole world is like that by default.

Your post implies that these things don't apply outside of the west but I don't see how they don't equally apply everywhere.

Also, is it abnormal that if you don't do work you can't eat? That seems like a pretty fundamental truth of life on earth.

Working to eat and improve one's own livelihood is great. The problem with our model is that most of the output of my work doesn't go to those things - it goes to some rich dude who's gonna keep shoving ads to my face and burning the planet I live in.

most of it?

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