Well, the Luddites were right about a lot of things...and AI is not qualitatively the same as what happened during the industrial revolution, which was a revolu

Well, the Luddites were right about a lot of things...and AI is not qualitatively the same as what happened during the industrial revolution, which was a revolution in physical production. For one thing, there is little evidence of similar vast productivity increases. And there is similarly little evidence of what happens when you replace one set of workers with an equivalent or even slightly worse artificial set, and invest all the money in that instead...without a similar increase in productivity or the accessibility of natural resources. In other words, it seems obvious to me that AI is far less defensible than the industrial revolution, and also obvious that the bulk of the issues the Luddites took with technology have been vindicated by history and sometimes in much more severe terms than what the Luddites thought.