Why We Fear AI by Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer (Common Notions, 2025) Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer make a compelling case for why we fear AI: our fears of what AI will do to us are really just our fears of what capitalism is already doing. In this way, AI isn’t so much a novel new technology as an acceleration of long-existing patterns in neoliberal capitalism—automation, deskilling, unaccountability, surveillance, and increasing precarity amidst shrinking welfare systems. But therein also lies a clue as to how to counter it, in that only organized, democratic control of labor can stand up to capital. When we see through the hype, we know what work we have to do. View this post on the web, subscribe to the newsletter, or reply via email.
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