AI Luddites Are a Threat for the Ages

Artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming the greatest grievance-producing machine the world has seen. Economic revolutions have always been followed by powerful backlashes on the part of the aggrieved. In Britain, Luddites smashed the power looms that took their jobs in the 1810s and, in the US, populists raged against the giant companies that reordered their lives after the Civil War. Unless properly handled, the AI transformation will produce rebellions on a scale we have never seen b