AI Won't Save Us From The Need To End Capitalism

AI Won't Save Us From The Need To End Capitalism

Reading by Tim Foley:Subscribe nowOne reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it’s the last “humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems” narrative that has yet to be fully discredited.The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don’t need…

AI Won’t Save Us From The Need To End Capitalism

Reading by Tim Foley: One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it’s the last “humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems” narrative that has yet to be fully discredited.  The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don’t need to disma…