[renjimen]

This is a bit of weird article. On one hand, I understand what they're getting at: AI is a transformative technology, but the people whose lives will be most transformed aren't included in the conversation. On the other hand... of course that's how it is while AI is in the hands of literal profit seeking corporations. That won't change until the labs are nationalised under a government that cares about its citizens' wellbeing. One might counter that a good corporation will listen to its customers, but that has never been the case for powerful technologies with real costs for users to not adopt them.

[tim333]

I don't think nationalising the AI labs is happening.

I agree the article is a bit odd. Alignment is mostly about making AI helpful and not wanting to kill people unless it's told to (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkirichenko/2026/05/12/ukra...).

The article is talking more about people like translators being replaced by AI translation. I don't think any of the labs have a department of making it worse so it can't do people's jobs.

The normal way of dealing with tech doing peoples jobs is to help them get different jobs. I've got a translator friend who did a government paid course to train as a tour guide - that sort of thing.

[renjimen]

Dario and Demis have called for nationalisation at some point. They know if AI reaches what they believe its potential to be, it needs to be democratically governed. It will upend the markets, but AI already threatens to do that. It feels like wishful thinking given how entrenched we are in neoliberalism, but it makes sense.

In the mean time there are various avenues of regulation and redistribution to lessen the effects, including retraining programs, though that job creation will keep pace with job losses is a big unknown.