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Date Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 12:08:23am
Author: Lib Hen (He / Him) [BST] (😷💉🏳‍🌈✊🏿🌍)
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Subject: NFR AI suppression of the labour market

Is anyone else concerned about the impact AI could have on human workers?

It feels like we're sleepwalking into a situation where large numbers of people are either pushed out of work entirely, or forced to accept lower wages because they're suddenly competing with something that's cheaper and easier for employers to manage. Corporations will frame this as "progress", but at the end of the day it's about reducing costs and maximising profit - the human consequences are very much secondary.

You can already see how this plays out; if a business has the option of replacing roles, or even just weakening workers' bargaining power by introducing AI alongside them, why wouldn't they? It creates a dynamic where people are more replaceable, more interchangeable, and ultimately more willing to accept less just to stay in work.

And unlike a human workforce, AI doesn't push back. It doesn't ask for better pay, it doesn't question conditions, it doesn't refuse instructions on ethical grounds - it just does what it's told. That might be convenient from a management perspective, but it raises some fairly uncomfortable questions about the kind of labour market we're drifting towards.

We need to be a bit more honest about what this means in practice, because once these shifts happen they're very difficult to reverse.

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