Amnesty International will make the wealthy richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Gowastla
PECONSE, Palantir – Technical Company of no less Five billionaires of executives – Declare Q2 profits: More than a billion dollars created in one quarter. Forty -eight percent growth in its business compared to the same quarter of last year, including 93 % growth in its American business. These elephant numbers are madness – and in a large part of it, as a result of the company completely embracing artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence Revolution here and as a measure Remember In the United States every day, it will reshape our world, making each company and government agency more efficient and less likely to make mistakes with our help so far from progress in science and technology. Not only that, but if we play our cards properly, the last Big Tech explosion can result in unprecedented economic growth.
Nevertheless, we may ask, growth for whom?
Consider Openai, the technology giant behind ChatGPT. In a promotional video announces the latest upgrade to their pioneering program, its CEO, Sam German, Pride: “He can write a full computer program from scratch.” Three days later, New York Times I mentioned Computer science graduates “face some of the highest unemployment rates” among their peers. And not only programmers and engineers. All automation with artificial intelligence materials are also swallowing functionality on the low -tip of the labor market, with both McDonald’s, Walmart and Amazon to integrate artificial intelligence tools to automate everything from service reactions to selecting warehouses and sorting.
As a previous reward for all layoffs to reduce costs, the wealth of business leaders of artificial intelligence may exceed all understanding. To date, if the artificial intelligence revolution succeeds in anything, it is in making the wealthy richer. The Wall Street gatherings witnessed that the shares of Amnesty International are rising at a record pace for hundreds of so-called “Wahida”-approximately from 500 Entittenational companies, which are valued at more than one billion dollars each. according to Bloomberg29 founders of artificial intelligence companies are now newly produced billionaires. And remember that all of these companies have been established in the past five years.
Why are investors very optimistic about the mutation of artificial intelligence? Partially because this technology promises to set more workers, more quickly, than any innovation in modern memory. The functional assessments of the emerging companies of artificial intelligence are made on the idea that this technology has the ability to eliminate the need for human work. And the work of the demobilization of workers is very profitable. In this sense, a more efficient redistribution of wealth in modern history can be.
Some artificial intelligence treatments certainly insist that the repercussions of all of this will not be very bad for a young man. Microsoft even Expected Blue -collar workers may have an advantage in the economy of artificial intelligence in the future. But nothing of this is very convincing. Some workers with strong skills will be able to stick to good wages and stable work for some time. But with self -driving cars, increased robots warehouses, lights, and Fully Restaurants, non -classical workers will feel the effect of artificial intelligence much closer to what pink predictions indicate.
All this raises a question about the current trend of our economy and whether the strategy that gives priority to developing super technology on everything else, or if this happens ever. In the late 1990s, the knowledge economy was announced as a solution to many economic problems. When the economy of the minds replaced the Brawn economy, the Americans promised new heights of greatness. The factories will definitely close with millions of high wages, the union jobs will disappear, but the new jobs in Google will be much better. With the layoff of a generation of workers, their children were encouraged to “Upskill”, go to the college, and Learn the code For future jobs. How ridiculous is that artificial intelligence, Zenith from the work of knowledge, results in cancellation Knowledge functions. Karl Marx once wrote that the bourgeoisie invented its own stations in the devastating proletariat. Today, the technical elite appears to be determined to perceive that prophecy.
Not only does the information age ship a new group of few, from Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to Elon Musk, who are now leading unimaginable wealth amounts. It also increases the income ladder, the extensive class divisions opened along the educational lines. When the computer -based action became, he created inequality in wages among workers who have received education for college and uneducated from olives to the spacious social Gulf.
Today, the individual’s location can be determined in a variety of cultural divisions – from sexual ideology to immigration – reliably through the position of the individual in the labor market. Those who still earn their money through a mixture of crafts and muscles are increasingly separating from those who make them through manipulation and managing “data”. In urban knowledge centers, the class system prevails almost in the Middle Ages, with an irreparable group of bankers and adult clerics at the top. There is a large layer of lawyers, medical lawyers and knowledge workers from white collars under it, followed by a proud group, but it is compressed by the workers with blue collars and services, and finally, a group of crises consisting of almost unemployed permanently.
It is not surprising that this inequality leads to a political dysfunction. Empire, suspicion, resentment and extreme polarization distinguished our civil scene, which ultimately makes for a policy With no winners except for the financial and technological elite, who have already monopolized their impact on the government. During the reign of Joe Biden, they were heated in incentives and benefits in the form of the Law of Chips and Sciences. Under Donald Trump, they win tax discounts Cancel restrictions. Regardless of who is in power, they seem to be more rich.
Socially, the great gains of the knowledge economy failed to raise their promises. With immediate global delivery, we promised cultural excellence and social effectiveness. Instead, we have been handed over an endless pass Deviate. Smartphone addiction has made us more fierce, bitter and boring. Social media has made us narcissistic. We were paid attention to the continuous and satisfactory need to check our notifications. In the built environment, the presence of screen stalls has removed everywhere until the slightest possibility of social interaction. Instead of holding talks with strangers, we only interact only with screens. All this made us more alone and less happy. As a treatment, we now offered artificial intelligence comrades psychotic Breaks. Do we really need more?
MOst when we already need to achieve some scale of the general good requires a common work. To rebuild our dilapidated infrastructure and even upgrade our electrical networks, we need electricians, steel workers and huge data centers. To clean the streets of cities, we need more exchange workers Juice. To deal with crime and social system problems, we need more police officers in a patrol – not a fleet of robot crimes Dogs. To improve transportation, we do not need self -driving cars, we need buses and trains with people who drive them. In other words, there is a lot of useful work that must be done, if we invested, as a society, in the low -technical economy. Not to mention that all the basic things of life – love, family, friendship, society – are still in analog.
Besides desire, investment in the future of a low technology may become necessary. Despite all this noise about the possibility of artificial intelligence, it could be the whole thing mirage. The huge size of the investor’s money flowing in the madness of artificial intelligence has all the signs of speculation bubble. If it explodes, the economy may already drown the fragile tramp.
Certainly, this is not the attraction of Lauddie. The progress of technology should continue. But does technology development should be the main and overwhelming, Priority Subordinate government? In 2022, Congress approved about $ 280 billion in high -tech investments. In 2024, private investment in artificial intelligence alone reached $ 230 billion. This year, supported by Trump Wall Street’s excessive mobilization hiring To invest $ 320 billion in artificial intelligence centers and data centers. In comparison, the supposed price of Biden Mammoth investments in roads and bridges total $ 110 billion. It is not that we need to strangle technology, however balance Outside of beating.
Marx – who was a great progress in Promethean and one can find – must serve the technology of thought social and human needs. Today, we have the formula completely – the community serves technology. Of course, Silicon Valley leaders love to tell us that the complex challenges in the future will only be resolved through more investments in research and development, however, more challenges and qualifiers for worrying green voltage data centers. But not the complex problems of the most exciting future. They are old languages of money, layer and power.