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Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first
(www.theregister.com)
Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry's ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryblahblah shelving projects for tax cheats, making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroyed once made, and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it's terminal capitalism, it's happening in every sector.
Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.
Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.
The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We're being cut out entirely, except the small class of private owners, of course.
AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that's why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed for PUBLIC benefit.
Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society. This civilization is dogshit.
