Charlie Stross on Nostr: AI deployment in place of employment inevitably exerts downward pressure on wages. ...
AI deployment in place of employment inevitably exerts downward pressure on wages. Which increases the profit margin for capital.
Much as prison is a discipline imposed by the capitalist state on the underclass, who in turn are used as a threat against the workers, so is AI being used as a discipline on the technoproletarian class—the knowledge workers.
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