US senator appears at Manhattan rally alongside New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who cautioned that AI is ‘coming for human jobs’

Bernie Sanders has sounded an alarm over the US economy, warning “the worst is yet to come” unless workers overcome a “ruling class” of billionaires.

The US senator spoke at a rally in Manhattan on Sunday alongside Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, who cautioned that artificial intelligence was “coming for human jobs” amid mounting concern over the technology’s rapid development.

As the pair headlined the launch of Union Now, a new drive to boost labor unions across the US, Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    The reason these Sociopathic Oligarchs are so giddy about AI, to the point of investing corporation destroying amounts of money, is because they are so excited about replacing so many disgusting human workers with clean, tireless, obedient robots.

    That’s the bottom line - they are pushing AI so hard at your job because they want it to get good enough to replace you.

    The Great Replacement Theory is real, it’s just not Jews or undocumented immigrants you have to worry about, it’s yourself. YOU are training your own replacement.

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        “The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

        — Oscar Wilde

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      It’s the stupidest thing since they’re fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone’s jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they’re creating a situation that’s universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who’s going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?

      I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live like as actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.

      Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors

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        The stock market, thsy think they just invest in each other. The whole idea is not needing humans at all. If they could get the robots to mass produce their food then they wouldn’t give a fuck if the companies make money. Hell they dont now and still earn billions a year.

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        21 hours ago

        in so many things it just gets me how these things should be utopian but are dystopian because of powerful folks coopting and exploiting them. I should love smartphones and drones and ai and such rather than despising it all.

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          We all wanted Star Trek… but what we’re really going to get is The Expanse

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            18 hours ago

            One thing about playing cyberpunk 2077 is it feels so creepily close. Especially all the homelessness and the way the rental buildings worked.