AI layoffs should trigger civil unrest.
Fuck, a lot of recent (last few years) events should have. Never to mention the rest of the history of the uk.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
14 points (100.0% liked)
United Kingdom
6700 readers
266 users here now
General community for news/discussion in the UK.
Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.
Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Seems low. If AI layoffs lead to mass unemployment, obviously there's going to be social unrest. And yeah, obviously AI isn't going to lead to mass prosperity as long as governments continue to refuse to implement some kind of basic income.
Reduce working hours could also work. 40 down to 20 hours work a week, double the number of jobs!
Yes I know it's not quite that simple but the idea of reducing the work week would stand.
I doubt it, far more people will be happy to blame anyone brown rather than AI.
And the reality is that it's neither of those two that are to blame. We're in recession and AI is just the convenient excuse to make layoffs without crashing the stock-price.
The real people who should be blamed are the ghouls who have been exploiting disaster-capitalism since at least the pandemic to concentrate all of the wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. The politicians are all complicit.
Isn't the economy growing, so not a recession by any means. Stagnating with very low growth? Sure. But not a recession. Yet..
AI ain't going to pick those strawberry fields
Neither is a Brit.
Did we learn nothing from the swing riots and the Luddite movements? You can’t stop progress and you’ve been banging on about the machines freeing you from manual drudgery so you have time to build that utopian society.
(/s just in case)
Poe's law.