I'm not afraid of the future in general, I'm afraid of a specific vision of the future. One that holds that workers are not entitled to the ease or value gained

I'm not afraid of the future in general, I'm afraid of a specific vision of the future. One that holds that workers are not entitled to the ease or value gained from automation, that requires everyone work to live with dignity and also demands the right to decide how many may work, and who. It's not the AI it's the consequences of owners applying it to labor. It will be used to further disempower workers, increase their precarity and desperation, continue and accelerate the concentration of wealth and power to a small coterie of owners. I'm also worried about the impact of inevitably applying it to high impact decisions that affect individuals' lives. Sentencing & parole, school & job applications, loans approval & rates, police surveillance, drone assassinations. These are already decisions that disproportionately create and reproduce inequality, violence, and immiseration in our society, we don't do them well. AI will not do better, but it will ossify our divisions and grant the same old results a veneer of quantitative legitimacy. The small daily atrocities will become even harder to stop, appeal, or even see. That's what I'm afraid of. Framing it as a general abstract fear of "the future" paints us as immature, irrational and cowardly. But what worries me about AI is that it won't be the future, it will just be the same mistakes and horrors we're making now, but even more efficient and impersonal.