>AI Will Be Used to Build SocialismWell everything will eventually be used to build socialism as technology is agnostic wrt politics. But AI will first and foremost be used in the cold war, and if socialism doesn't win out, you'd probably want to blame AI. Either way, I think it's going to get way worse before it gets any better.
First, AI will be a vehicle for consolidation: Once the bubble bursts and 99% of the chaff uses get weeded out, the result will be that the remaining companies, will have achieved monopolies on the production and use of computing hardware and merged with the state.
Second, AI tech is seen as a proxy for silicon tech as a whole: It will continue to play a humongous role in the cold war, akin to aerospace/nautics in the previous cold war, but through the facade of retarded magic content black boxes, while eating huge subsidies and driving resource wars.
And third, AI tech has wild governance implications: Not just for the panopticon of the surveillance state, which will only continue to expand as it is part of the cold war everything-race.
But the previous consolidation and public-private partnership of silicon tech means corporations getting a greater capture of state mechanisms themselves. The Ukrainian model as depicted, where "Digital transformation" means to let tech corporations(often foreign) run the bureaucracy is also going to keep expanding under the guise of convenience.
The thing that corporations do now where they are never responsible of anything because they can claim a Schrodinger's "automated system" did it? Yeah, that's going straight in.
"Predictive" policing? you got it.
24/7 employee surveillance? damn right.
Corporate run judiciaries? Well not really, they just run every part of the bureaucracy and have capture on every institution! totally legal!
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