AI and Liberals

will it show them the door?

Here’s a piece at The Free Press saying that AI meaning the end of “learning to code.” Kids with software engineering degrees can’t find jobs.

Then there is Victor Davis Hanson saying that our liberal friends are desperately trying to appeal to the ordinary middle class, but it’s hard because they are “repulsed” by it.

May I say it again? We are entering the sixth technological revolution starting with the machine textile revolution two hundred years ago.

And the main thing to remember about each technological revolution is that to the people put out of work it looks like the end of the world. And for everybody else, they don’t have a clue what is coming. But they really like the cheap cotton textiles, the railways all over the land, the amazing results of steel in everything, the delight of seeing the USA in a Chevrolet, and the astonishing fact of the smartphone.

But then there is the Wish List.

Suppose that AI short circuits the NGO game that recycles money for Democrats. Suppose that AI removes the need for government to control the details of health care. Suppose that AI puts the whole regulatory state out of work. Suppose that AI puts all the lawyers out of work. Suppose that AI puts all the union school teachers out of work. Suppose that AI enables DataRepublican to identify every corrupt government payment in seconds.

OK, you can see that I am sneaking my own personal Wish List into my fearless forecast of AI.

Because what I would like to see is the replacement of the bureaucratic state with an AI state.

I would like to see the replacement of our current ruling class that believes that politics can save the world with a ruling class that believes that the less the government does the less it will Make Thing Worse.

But that is all in the future. All we know right now is that we are barreling into a new technological revolution and we don’t have a clue how it will all turn out.

But it would be really cool if AI pitched our liberal friends out of political power. And it would be even more cool if it could happen without any butcher’s bill. I’m talking to you, Dick the Butcher.