Artificial Intelligence in the 21st century
threatens people who feel their livelihoods will become extinct. This is
because they fear that A.I. is “taking over” the creative and administrative
tasks that people rely on for wages. They feel insecure that A.I. can do their
jobs more efficiently and precisely.
In the early 19th century, there were people in
England and elsewhere who feared the same with regard to clothmaking
(textiles). They believed that their livelihoods would be erased because of new
machinery. The Luddites did not want this new machinery from “taking over.” To
that end, they used threats and violence against the threat.
The feelings and thoughts of the Luddites are not so far
removed, perhaps, from how people in the 21st century are reacting to how
Artificial Intelligence is “taking over.”
Of course, the Luddites or anyone could not talk to the new
machine inventions as 21st century people can talk to A.I. But, alas, this lack
of talking machinery was the reality of “technology” of the early 19th century.
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