An interesting post, as ever. Still digesting it. But in the meantime, read the Dorr article on AI, robots and labour. Am I alone in thinking that a major flaw in its sunlit uplands view is that it doesn't address, even to note as a question, the concentrations of social and economic power involved?
Ha, so agree! I posted it mainly as I thought it was interesting on what might be coming up, but I think you're dead right that with any new tech the question is not just what the direct impact of it might be, but also the political economy consequences of consequences. GMOs a case in point: I think the risks to health / biodiversity were overestimated, whereas the impacts of concentrating yet more power in the hands of seed companies were probably a bigger deal than was recognised when they were first introduced
An interesting post, as ever. Still digesting it. But in the meantime, read the Dorr article on AI, robots and labour. Am I alone in thinking that a major flaw in its sunlit uplands view is that it doesn't address, even to note as a question, the concentrations of social and economic power involved?
Ha, so agree! I posted it mainly as I thought it was interesting on what might be coming up, but I think you're dead right that with any new tech the question is not just what the direct impact of it might be, but also the political economy consequences of consequences. GMOs a case in point: I think the risks to health / biodiversity were overestimated, whereas the impacts of concentrating yet more power in the hands of seed companies were probably a bigger deal than was recognised when they were first introduced