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US senator appears at Manhattan rally alongside New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who cautioned that AI is ‘coming for human jobs’

Bernie Sanders has sounded an alarm over the US economy, warning “the worst is yet to come” unless workers overcome a “ruling class” of billionaires.

The US senator spoke at a rally in Manhattan on Sunday alongside Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, who cautioned that artificial intelligence was “coming for human jobs” amid mounting concern over the technology’s rapid development.

As the pair headlined the launch of Union Now, a new drive to boost labor unions across the US, Sanders issued a bleak assessment of the consequences if workers fail to organize against billionaires like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon; and Donald Trump, the US president.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's the stupidest thing since they're fighting against UBI at the same time. Robots taking everyone's jobs should be a utopian future to look forward to, but instead they're creating a situation that's universally bad for everyone including themselves. When nobody is employed and nobody has any source income, who's going to give the oligarchs more money via consumerism?

I know a lot of billionaires want to bring back a tech-flavoured version of feudalism where they live ~~like~~ as actual kings but even medieval peasants were given some form of bread and circus to keep them from rising up.

Billionaires right now are on track to create a duel between millions to billions of poor and hungry people against the tiny number of them. Without bread and circuses, the people have nothing to live for except overthrowing their oppressors

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

The stock market, thsy think they just invest in each other. The whole idea is not needing humans at all. If they could get the robots to mass produce their food then they wouldn't give a fuck if the companies make money. Hell they dont now and still earn billions a year.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

in so many things it just gets me how these things should be utopian but are dystopian because of powerful folks coopting and exploiting them. I should love smartphones and drones and ai and such rather than despising it all.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why do we allow the rich to be so powerful? Because they've amassed so many imaginary units?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I think its because most of us are just looking to enjoy our days and our more concerned about what we can do in our lives and make things better than stopping people from making things worse. I mean my academic goals when young was research around gene therapy.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We all wanted Star Trek… but what we’re really going to get is The Expanse

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

One thing about playing cyberpunk 2077 is it feels so creepily close. Especially all the homelessness and the way the rental buildings worked.

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

They seem to be convinced that we can no longer revolt against them. Only time will tell if they are correct if nothing stops them