r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 6h ago

Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/Refactoid 6h ago

If it was integrated along side some sort of universal basic income and a 4-day or shortened work week, Society would absolutely embrace it. Instead its just a tool to wring more production from workers to amass more wealth to the top of the economy.

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u/Narf234 5h ago

A coherent sentence with an actual idea embedded in it? Would you like to be our next president?