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As a result, technological innovation has become understood less as a way to bring better, more fulfilling products and experiences to people, than as another means of doubling down on domination, extraction, and growth. The assembly line, for just one example, had little to do with making products better or even faster. Its real purpose was to minimize a company’s reliance on skilled workers who could ask for fair wages. Manufacturing technology was primarily about disconnecting human labor from the value being created.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
Because if we did, there would be blood.
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Contemporary deep learning systems are mostly forms of supervised learning, which means they need training data, which in turn means someone has to do the labour of labelling that data.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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