<![CDATA[If anyone has any doubts that the #AI industry is all about dismantling labour rights, let's consider this:]]>If anyone has any doubts that the industry is all about dismantling labour rights, let's consider this:

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

Google shuts down the project. One of the most impactful machine learning projects in the sciences is being dismantled despite its immense value.

Why?

The article doesn't mention it, but it's almost certainly because DeepMind was trying to form a union to protect their rights and oppose Google's military contracts.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-unionization-talks-are-off-to-a-rocky-start/

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Three aims:
1) Steal from pension funds via bogus stock issues
2) Crush labor everywhere
3) War and genocide

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117013249328012706https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.cat/users/androcat/statuses/117013249328012706Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:48:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If anyone has any doubts that the #AI industry is all about dismantling labour rights, let's consider this: on Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:22:57 GMT]]>Nurses need labour protections. Dock workers need labour protections. NBA players need labour protections. Nobel Prize-winning scientists need labour protections.

We all need labour protections because there is no idol, no sacred cow, no project, no habitat, and person that the executive class will not destroy to keep their power.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://scholar.social/users/jrhawley/statuses/117009375411054937https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://scholar.social/users/jrhawley/statuses/117009375411054937Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:22:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If anyone has any doubts that the #AI industry is all about dismantling labour rights, let's consider this: on Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:20:12 GMT]]>If the tech industry is willing to shut down scientists who helped win a Nobel Prize, what's to stop them from shutting down anyone else? What scientists have a higher profile than that?

This is why You Deserve a Tech Union:

https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

It doesn't matter if AI "works" or not when it functions as a means to suppress wages, cut costs, and destroy labour solidarity regardless of how it functions.

https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/

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