UK folk increasingly don't believe AI jobs revolution will end in prosperity for anyone outside the boardroom, say researchers

UK folk increasingly don’t believe AI jobs revolution will end in prosperity for anyone outside the boardroom, say researchers

    • eleijeep ( eleijeep@piefed.social ) English
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      6 months ago

      And the reality is that it’s neither of those two that are to blame. We’re in recession and AI is just the convenient excuse to make layoffs without crashing the stock-price.

      The real people who should be blamed are the ghouls who have been exploiting disaster-capitalism since at least the pandemic to concentrate all of the wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. The politicians are all complicit.

  • rumschlumpel ( rumschlumpel@feddit.org ) English
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    6 months ago

    Seems low. If AI layoffs lead to mass unemployment, obviously there’s going to be social unrest. And yeah, obviously AI isn’t going to lead to mass prosperity as long as governments continue to refuse to implement some kind of basic income.

    • Korhaka ( Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ) English
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      6 months ago

      Reduce working hours could also work. 40 down to 20 hours work a week, double the number of jobs!

      Yes I know it’s not quite that simple but the idea of reducing the work week would stand.

  • Codpiece ( Codpiece@feddit.uk ) English
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    6 months ago

    Did we learn nothing from the swing riots and the Luddite movements? You can’t stop progress and you’ve been banging on about the machines freeing you from manual drudgery so you have time to build that utopian society.

    (/s just in case)