“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology - time we described it that way
17 days ago
- #AI criticism
- #Labor rights
- #Workplace automation
- The author argues that large language models (LLMs) and 'artificial intelligence' (AI) are failed technologies, failing to deliver value beyond benefiting investors and shareholders.
- Despite useful individual applications, AI is criticized for its overwhelming bias toward failure, with significant social, cultural, and ecological costs.
- Consumers and brands mistrust AI, yet corporations continue to adopt it due to fear of falling behind, despite most corporate AI pilots failing.
- AI's ubiquity is seen as a sign of failure, propped up by massive investment and government contracts rather than merit.
- The author highlights how companies like Zapier enforce AI mandates, evaluating employees based on their acceptance and use of AI, equating skepticism with poor performance.
- AI is portrayed as a tool for corporate control, deskilling workers and making them more replaceable, rather than improving productivity or products.
- The author advocates for worker organization and unionization to resist AI mandates and protect workers' rights, citing examples from Hollywood strikes.
- Organizing and solidarity among workers are proposed as means to challenge AI's role in the workplace and ensure it remains a 'failure'.