You need to be able to tell that something is wrong with this headline without anyone explaining it to you.
Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline
Submitted 17 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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ideonek@piefed.social 16 hours ago
protist@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
People who perceive artificial intelligence as destroying jobs are significantly more dissatisfied with the functioning of democracy.
This line from the article is significantly different from the headline
PushButton@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The AI slop used to write that “article” was stuck on autorepeat.
You should fix the clanker.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Perceiving AI as a ‘job killer’ negatively influences attitudes towards democracy…
Towards democracy, or towards AI? I feel like this is bait and switch.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Well, when most governments are going all in on AI it’s hard to take democracy seriously 🤷
thejml@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
But thats less because of AI specifically, and more because it’s that governments are pushing for something that the people don’t want.
You could replace AI in that sentence with anything the people don’t want, didn’t ask for, or are explicitly against, and it would still be true.
LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Guys. I just found out were supposed to “believe” in or trust democracy.
I had no idea!
XLE@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Important to note that most of the “AI will take your job” rhetoric is spun up by the AI industry, not fact
bearboiblake@pawb.social 17 hours ago
People’s trust in democracy SHOULD BE 0%. It’s all fake, it always has been. It’s an illusion of control for us, so we don’t resist and try to break free of the open-air prison we live in.
Revolution is the only way out.
gustofwind@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Trump and co just successfully revolted and are now attempting to institute their ideological vision
Did you account for it being someone else’s revolution?
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
It’s less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.
But it’s not “Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him.” Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.
The system really is working exactly as intended.
Hamartia@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.
For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 16 hours ago
My point is that we need to recognize that Fascism is already here and that we need to accept that democracy has failed us here. We need to fight for a better world, we can’t just vote our way out of this.
Clapping our hands and saying “I do believe in Democracy!” won’t bring it back.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 14 hours ago
Problem is, we’ve never found a better system. They all suck, in various ways, many of them far worse than representative democracy. And that’s even if no one’s messing with the details of the setup to keep a certain group in power.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Not sure I like that this headline / research seems to frame the issue as a PR problem. I don’t want to be filled with a bunch of AI slop to try to convince me that AI is not a threat to my job. I think overall I have a pretty balanced view of AI — though how many of us realize when we are unhinged — but I think it’ll eventually settle into a tool which increases efficiency, slightly reduces jobs in certain sectors just like the farm combine did, and not a lot will change overall.
The thing negatively influencing my faith in democracy is so many of the people of the world voting for right-wing and autocratic parties. I feel like democracy has failed us in that respect. On the other hand I don’t know of a better solution. AI isn’t really involved there.
I wonder if there isn’t a more fundamental connection between people who observe the direction of the world and those who see that corporations are falling over themselves to eliminate workers and are deeply worried that they just might succeed to the detriment of all.
tomiant@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I perceive the paradigm of the economy and capitalist demands on labor as eroding my trust in democracy and participation in society.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The article itself looks like it’s written with AI. Inconsistencies, repetitions, dull language and an unnecessary bullet point summary at the end. While I haven’t read the actual study, nothing in the article seems to explain what makes this causation instead of correlation.
Personally I’m a bit annoyed with articles like these because they try to create the impression that criticism of AI only stems from it being too powerful, instead of recognizing that the technology has very real capability limits. What is presented as two opposing viewpoints is effectively just one. AI boosters and AI doomers are both strong believers in something that hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t happen for a very long time.
verdantshimada@piefed.world 17 hours ago
This is a spurious correlation if I’ve ever seen one.
Perceiving the government as loudly and publicly placing anything ahead of regular people and their jobs is what erodes democracy. The feeling that someone is not represented to elected representatives. Most elections over the last 30 years have been about this as a core economic element. Globalzied manufacturing was the Big Bad for decades before AI came along.