Author’s note: In what follows, “AI” largely refers to Claude/ChatGPT-style LLMs and the associated agents.
The primary driving force behind AI development is not automation, efficiency, nor equity, but the desire amongst the owning class to extract capital from the working class.
Atrophied perspective taking from over-reliance on AI is just as worrisome (if not more so) than atrophied critical thinking.
The adoption of AI hinges on exactly one proposition: not improved output or efficiency, but improved control. “I prefer the control I have over an agent/agents to what humans typically give me.”
The onset of LLM-derived content has pushed humanity into a regime of plausible-sounding pseudotruth never before seen.
As AI automates rote coding tasks in the software sector, performative talk-past-each-other “alignment” activities will fill the gap (not new, faster feature development).