So much 'innovation' in late stage capitalism is about finding new places to set up a toll booth.
The AI industry will fail in replacing all human labour, but it may succeed in setting up a toll booth between you and your own brain, making people reliant on AI services to do their thinking for them. Google monetised your thoughts every time you did a search, but AI seeks to replace them entirely.
Tech-bro psychopaths dream of a world in which you pay to think. We cannot let them build it.
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