Fear of the AI
I don’t know if you’ve heard about the new, exciting tool issued by Open AI, ChatGPT, but, apparently, it reached one million users in five days. (This, by the way, was my worst attempt at sarcasm. Of course you have heard of it. Who hasn’t?)
Love to Automate, Automate to Love
Automation of labour has been, since the industrial revolution, probably the worst nightmare of the working class. But if for decades the threat was only addressed to manual skills, easily out-powered by the relentless force of steel and fire, the advent of personal computers has extended the menace from muscles to brains.