Major companies who have been laying off workers are opting to replace them with AI and automation technologies, instead of inviting them back.
Tag: technocracy
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ‘JUNIOR PARTNER’ SYMBIOSIS IN FULL SWING
A recent article in Psychology Today put forward the idea that addressing problems with AI safety and “alignment” with serving human interests, might be solved by a “bold” new way of envisioning the integration of humans and AI.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI BETTER WORKERS AND COMPANIONS THAN HUMANS?
Ah, serving humanity. That’s the now well-rehearsed line that most companies and personalities pushing AI and genetic technologies emphasize, to assure people their intentions and pursuits are noble.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: EV GO FU STUNS WASHINGTON POST, AND MORE EVIDENCE AI COPYRIGHT THEFT
Even before Donald Trump was elected, Biden mega-billion Inflation Reduction Act spending (supposedly) meant to spur green energy technology development and uptake was failing.
HUMANOIDS SET TO EXPLODE AS HUMAN POPULATIONS IMPLODE: THE POST-HUMAN FEVER DREAM CONTINUES
The 20th, and now the 21st century are showing the limits of technology as an all-encompassing orientation for achieving true natural human fulfilment.
CLIMATE KA-CHING: FRAUD AND WASTE OF THE 2022 INFLATION REDUCTION ACT NOW SUBJECT OF LAWSUIT
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 16, 2022, was sold as a $783 billion game-changer to fight climate change, bolster healthcare, and trim the federal deficit. Packed with tax credits, green energy grants, and IRS muscle, it promised a cleaner, fairer America.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: LAB GROWN HUMANS FOR BODY PARTS, AND GENE EDITING RICE FOR HEART “HEALTH”
Humans grown from embryonic stem cells, incubated in artificial wombs, created for the purpose of supplying research flesh, or organs for transplants, is the latest “science” being advocated by MIT.Meanwhile, gene editing is coming for one of the most basic staple crops on earth. For more on forecasts of ours that are quickly turning to reality,......
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: THE AGE OF ‘AI ANTI-ABUNDANCE’ IS IN FULL SWING
A breakthrough in creating (gene edited) biological muscle tissue to build flesh robots, and WIRED magazine is growing more concerned about AI white collar job threats…it’s all part of what we’re dubbing the Age of AI Anti-Abundance.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI MUST BE ALLOWED TO STEAL IP BECAUSE ‘NATIONAL SECURITY’, PLUS MORE HUMAN WORKER OBSOLESCENCE
Tech companies including Meta and OpenAI, who developed generative and now Agentic AI to divert huge profits from human creatives to themselves, have been battling copyright and IP laws in courts for several years now.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: HUMANS WORKING OVERTIME TO CREATE THEIR AI AGENT REPLACEMENTS
Mainstream media continues to dote on the wonders of the AI Revolution, while betraying at least some qualms about whether it might be serving narrow interests and speeding massive human worker obsolescence.