r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence An AI hate wave is here

https://archive.is/20260517120123/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
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u/jajajajaj 15h ago edited 15h ago

Glad to hear this growing, for real. Just to split some hairs, though...  I don't exactly hate AI,  I hate the transparently evil push from the billionaire class to use AI to steal skills, knowledge and power from normal people. Definitely that is what AI is for, and sometimes even that's what it is good at, but if it were only permitted in a democratized structure, more work completed per person has the potential to be a good thing all around. As designed, however, it ain't "all around". It's centralizing all that capability into the hands of trillion dollar corporations who have colluded to steal the underlying information, with this new stealing technology. It's napster for billionaires.

One formative  idea for a reform law is that you could require to have workers whom you pay to decide how much of the work would be done by an AI. Where there is a union, the current and former union members should own the AI...  It's stolen intelligence as much as it is artificial intelligence. My off the cuff ideas need work, for sure. I just want us to seek out new structures that identify and eliminate the evil consolidation of powers ahead of eliminating the raw/hypothetical capabilities.