观点:“好人”资本家的时代已经结束。大学生反对科技精英是正确的

全国各地毕业典礼上对人工智能发出嘘声的学生不仅仅是担心就业。他们从不远的过去吸取了紧迫的教训。他们知道,人们熟悉的赋权和创造力承诺将继续让位于在线监控经济的病态:病毒式传播、商业操纵和成瘾性……帖子观点:“好人”资本家的时代已经结束。大学生反对科技精英是正确的,这一点首先出现在《赫钦格报告》上。

来源:The Hechinger Report

全国各地毕业典礼上对人工智能发出嘘声的学生不仅仅是担心就业。他们从不远的过去吸取了紧迫的教训。

They know that the familiar promise of empowerment and creativity will continue to give way to the pathologies of the online surveillance economy: viral slop, commercial manipulation and addictive apps — this time on automated steroids.

科技行业的乌托邦承诺在于维持生命。 The hope that it would empower workers and revitalize democracy soured sometime between the massive data breach of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the rapid uptake of the term“surveillance capitalism”to describe the online economy.

If Silicon Valley once received the enthusiastic reception reserved for “good guy capitalists,” those days are over, and deservedly so.

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The backlash is not limited to AI.The luster and hype surrounding the entire tech industry in the 1990s and 2000s, back when Gen Xers and millennials flocked to Silicon Valley, have fizzled, replaced by mass layoffs and a litany of social harms.

Z 世代不仅对大型科技公司失去了信心。 In the face of galloping economic inequality and democratic backsliding, many now view tech titans as greed-fueled latter-day barons of capitalism.

Gen Z has learned that what determines the future of technological innovations is not their inherent capabilities but the choices of the private organizations that deploy them.学生们担心人工智能将增强对消费者的数据驱动操纵,并用合成的点击诱饵充斥媒体环境。

These young people are already seeing what technology is doing to their lives and education and don’t like the results.At my own institution, students have formed a Luddite Club to resist the siren song of social media, and they’re not alone.