Shutterstock A little over a year ago, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, triggering an artificial intelligence gold rush and reigniting the age-old debate about the effects of automation on human welfare.
The fear of displacement by machines can be traced back to the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, when groups of English handloom weavers, known as Luddites, began destroying the power looms that threatened their livelihoods. The movement , which peaked between 1811 and 1817, was ultimately suppressed by government forces, and its leaders were executed or exiled to Australia.
But the Luddites’ arguments found an unexpected (and somewhat ironic) […]
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