AI exacerbates inequality

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Is there an economist in his right mind who thinks that progress comes from getting rid of bulldozers?

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Given the potential for AI to exacerbate inequality, how can we redirect technology? We need to actively steer technological development in a direction that benefits broader swathes of humanity.

This require a pro-human approach that prioritises enhancing worker productivity and autonomy, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: “Societal control” is Orwellian doublespeak for “government control.”.

David Frum : Tech companies just need freedom of speech, association, and transaction to disrupt powerful we’ Who is trying to “steer” things in a way that the democratic hoi-polloi don’t like? Frum says tech companies have that all sewn up.

He asks: Is there an economist in his right mind who thinks that progress comes from getting rid of bulldozers and going back to shovels?.

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