The breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism(theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
The breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/07/anti-ai-tech-extremism-violence
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"extremism"
Maybe the focus here is on the wrong side of the equation.
What is happening with AI is capitalistic extremism.
The overall value proposition of AI could easily be self defeating and self destructive.
*If* generative AI succeeds in eliminating large numbers of white collar jobs and effectively destroys a huge chunk of the consumer base, who will buy all the products and services produced with AI?
In other words, we're burning huge piles of borrowed cash on the stated effort to produce a less prosperous society. The end result could easily be a shrunken economy with less for everyone --- including the rich --- including the AI vendors.
A common quote often attributed to Stalin, Lenin or Marx is something like, "Capitalists will sell the rope to be used to hang them".
With AI it is even worse --- we are effectively borrowing tons of money in order to *build* the rope. And the "hanging" will result entirely from the flaws in our own ideology.
What is happening with AI is capitalistic extremism.
The overall value proposition of AI could easily be self defeating and self destructive.
*If* generative AI succeeds in eliminating large numbers of white collar jobs and effectively destroys a huge chunk of the consumer base, who will buy all the products and services produced with AI?
In other words, we're burning huge piles of borrowed cash on the stated effort to produce a less prosperous society. The end result could easily be a shrunken economy with less for everyone --- including the rich --- including the AI vendors.
A common quote often attributed to Stalin, Lenin or Marx is something like, "Capitalists will sell the rope to be used to hang them".
With AI it is even worse --- we are effectively borrowing tons of money in order to *build* the rope. And the "hanging" will result entirely from the flaws in our own ideology.