"J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> writes:

*Artificial intelligence** *     Publisher: Social Europe (in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung and Weizenbaum Institut)     Published: 1st August 2020

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AI has conjured up a dystopia of robots displacing human workers from employment. Some have predicted very large-scale job substitution but others question whether such a predetermined outcome can be envisaged: whether jobs are lost and how they are changed depends on whether workers are involved in the decisions that are made.

Interessante questione: leggendola mi sembrava di avere un déjà vu e, come pollicino, le briciole mi hanno ricondotto al Luddismo, ma non nell'accezzione distorta passata alla storia: https://web.archive.org/web/20140301111725/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hi... «What the Luddites Really Fought Against» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [...] Despite their modern reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to technology nor inept at using it. Many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry. [...] Fearing a national movement, the government soon positioned thousands of soldiers to defend factories. Parliament passed a measure to make machine-breaking a capital offense. [...] As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.” [...] But it needs to be about big things, too, like standing up against technologies that put money or convenience above other human values. If we don’t want to become, as Carlyle warned, “mechanical in head and in heart,” it may help, every now and then, to ask which of our modern machines General and Eliza Ludd would choose to break. And which they would use to break them. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Solo per dire che, in fondo in fondo, non si tratta di nulla di nuovo e soprattutto non connesso "solo" alla AI. Probabilmente il sogno di ogni Luddista è che ciascuno possieda una macchina intelligentissima che, lavorando sotto contratto al posto suo [1], porti a casa un reddito dignitoso a fine mese :-D [...] Saluti, Giovanni. [1] e permettendogli di coltivare liberamente le proprie passioni, lavorando -- Giovanni Biscuolo