Yeah it turns out calling it "artificial intelligence" when it isn't artificial intelligence might have been irresponsible.

This is like if you trained a dog to do a job so you wouldn't need to pay a person to do that job but the dog requires a handler so now you have to pay for a dog and a handler.

fits the thesis of the Who Makes Cents ep about the history of automation post WW2: it does not save labor. it merely dislocates relationships, deprofessionalizes and deskills workers, and is always deployed by capital specifically to attack organized or potentially organizing worker power.

great listen with a very knowledgeable guest: Jason Resnikoff.

Jason Resnikoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) where he specializes in labor history and the history of technology. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, explores the ideological origins of automation in the US in the middle of the twentieth century.

https://whomakescents.libsyn.com/jason-resnikoff-on-the-automation-discourse-and-the-meaning-of-work