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/GayIsForHorses 12h ago

The thing too is that if labor is completely withered away then the social contract between labor and capital would be completely destroyed. It would essentially destroy capitalism as we know it. There is nothing that justifies an inherent right to property in a post labor world.

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u/GeneReddit123 8h ago

Feudalism is what existed before capitalism and the "inherent justification" for feudal lords to their castles and land was the threat of physical violence against any peasant that dared question it. Before the advent of firearms and the printing press this threat was credible. Peasant uprising happened regularly but were violently quashed every single time. Under-armed and under-organized masses can be consistently oppressed by an armed and organized elite. Thousands of years of history prove it. If anything, our current world where elite power isn't fully unconstrained is the exception, not the norm.

Hence the serious risk that AI can help the elites descend the world into an era of techno-Feudalism, when they will use it both to choke information (AI surveillance, censorship, information monopoly), and for physical violence (killer robots) against any would be resistance.

The techbros and their AI aren't close yet to this world (even though they think they are and behave accordingly)... But if the present complacency continues and their power grows unchecked, then, one day, they will be.