I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
Plus, if it’s anything like other applications, it’s going to be very probabilistic, so it will require someone to be on the loop 24/7, to correct the robot if they’re fucking up. Just like how many “AI companies” are just some guy in the global south getting paid pennies to process traumatic data.
I think it’s more legitimate to think of them as a further abstraction over exploitative labor practices.
“I don’t have a slave! I have a robot! They don’t have feelings or wants or needs! They just do what I say!”
Meanwhile, the systems which make that robot functional are rife with literal chattel slavery as well as wage slavery and imperial exploitation of the global south.
Plus, if it’s anything like other applications, it’s going to be very probabilistic, so it will require someone to be on the loop 24/7, to correct the robot if they’re fucking up. Just like how many “AI companies” are just some guy in the global south getting paid pennies to process traumatic data.
That’s the rub. All this stuff is sold as ushering in “post-scarcity” and “post-money,” but it fucking won’t.