AI is coming for the lanyard class
From our UK edition
Forgive me. I am going to begin by quoting two prominent left-wing Londoners – and agreeing with one. In a speech recently, Sadiq Khan warned that artificial intelligence could become ‘a weapon of mass destruction of jobs’. He did acknowledge AI’s potential to fight cancer and other evils, but his main point was that it needs to be controlled by bureaucracies like the one he leads. He has it the wrong way round. We don’t need bureaucracy to control AI, we need AI to cut bureaucracy. Now Karl Marx: ‘Bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
