TechEquity (5 November 2024). "What does it mean to be a 'Luddite' in the age of AI?"
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Point: As Molly Crabapple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Crabapple explains, "'for me, a luddite is someone who looks at technology critically and rejects aspects of it that are meant to disempower, deskill or impoverish them. Technology is not something that’s introduced by some god in heaven who has our best interests at heart. Technological development is shaped by money, it’s shaped by power, and it’s generally targeted towards the interests of those in power as opposed to the interests of those without it. That stereotypical definition of a luddite as some stupid worker who smashes machines because they’re dumb? That was concocted by bosses.'" (Lamont, T., 2024). Context: Sara Flocks https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-flocks-66b2b75 is the Legislative and Strategic Campaigns Director at the California Federation of Labor Unions https://calaborfed.org/about-us/our-staff/ Bibliography: Lamont, T. (2024). ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse. The Guardian. [online] 17 Feb. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse.
