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> Complaints about AI and automation are actually complaints about capitalism

No that's not it at all. Complaints about AI are actually complains about loss of control. In capitalism, communism or any other society you like to describe, if AI displaces people -- those people lose control over their lives and that gets very serious quickly.

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Are you referring to fears that AI will make decisions for us that take away our control of our lives? Because that is happening as a consequence of the drive to lower the costs of making those decisions. Right now that drive is pushed by capitalism.

You are right to say that in theory other economic systems could result in a similar drive - thus I wouldn’t suggest we just dump capitalism for communism with the vague hope it will solve this issue. Rather, we have to intentionally design our incentives to ensure small tactical decisions (eg automating decision making processes) don’t have macro consequences (eg AI magnifies humanity’s decision making flaws).

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