That’s intentional. They sensationalize to desensitize. Unlike the introduction of computers or the internet, AI will absolutely take far more jobs than it will create. Goldman Sachs predicts a 50% reduction in US jobs by 2045, and Republicans added a provision into the budget reconciliation that prohibits any regulation on AI for a decade, to ensure that prosperity goes to the corporations.
Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s the same sentiment towards immigrants that’s seen on the right.
The media have been running the exact same headlines. It feels weirdly like the corporate run media have an agenda to show us all the horrors of AI like they will take our jobs, they are going to collapse our society, they are a threat to our children, they contribute to organized crime. Same headlines every time.
I anticipate people here will be bothered by this statement just like if you say immigration isn’t really a big problem in r/conservative. The media is insidious. But I really think it’s a good opportunity to see how it shapes public opinion.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve learned of one interesting pathway from ancap to socialism long ago, as you might have guessed, through Georgism, but more generally - every finite resource that can’t be produced, like territory and laws of nature, shouldn’t be owned and should be considered common property shared by communist means. What can be produced is private property without limitations.
Thus you can own guns, tanks, jets and air carriers, but you shouldn’t be able to fully own territory and patents, because that eventually leads to legally reinforced monopoly.
I think there’s a logical connection from that to what our future looks like and how it will have to be resolved. Unless we want a caste society.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim. It’s very eerily similar to the emerging opinion on the left when compared to opinions on the right towards immigrants.
Regardless of validity of opinion. What I’m noticing is the role the media has played on shaping opinion and fed it.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim.
You’ll find conservatives rarely bother trying to do this because it’s simply statistically not true
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Absolutely not true. I find more often they use lots of statistics. That’s the whole facts over feelings thing.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The media is very predictable for sure. They put on the rose-colored glasses for the pro argument, and sensationalize the worst fears for the con. Historically, the truth lands in the middle.
Unlike the topic of immigration, with the massive wealth inequality of today, anything benefiting corporations over the working class is far more likely to work out in their favor.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I find the comparison pretty disgusting.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That might actually reinforce my point
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
No, it really doesn’t. You can’t just say “I bet this opinion will be unpopular” and then when it does, in fact, turn out to be unpopular make the leap to say “this just proves how correct my opinion was”
No, it only proves how unpopular it was.
Even if all the same comparisons could be made between why people dislike genAI and why people dislike immigrants (they can’t, btw), one of those things involves flesh and blood human beings.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 day ago
AI is an algorithm, humans are humans.