Venkatesh Rao interprets the fear of AI-driven job losses as a parallel to mercantilism and asks who will control intelligence in the future.

Engineer Venkatesh Rao sees the fear of AI-driven job loss as parallel to mercantilism, in which intelligence as a scarce resource could be controlled by elites.

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  • Julian LindnerDeutsch
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    3 days ago

    Ah yes, the same old story: AI will steal your job, then nothing happens, then we all move on. Only the scarcity gets hoarded this time.