Technology Is an Amplifier — Not the Enemy

Technology and artificial intelligence are often framed as existential threats, from mass unemployment to surveillance states to autonomous weapons. But this framing misses the real problem. Technology does not have intentions. Economic systems do. AI, automation, and advanced technology are amplifiers of the values and incentives embedded within the system that deploys them. Under capitalism, technology is used to maximize profit, control labor, dominate populations, and extract value — even at the expense of human well-being and ecological stability. That does not mean technology itself is destructive. In a different economic and cultural framework — one rooted in cooperation, sustainability, and human needs rather than profit — technology could: Eliminate unnecessary labor instead of jobs Enable abundance rather than scarcity Reduce surveillance rather than expand it Serve humanity instead of controlling it The question is not “Is AI dangerous?” The real question is “Who controls technology — and for what purpose?” This video explores why blaming AI is a distraction, how capitalism weaponizes innovation, and what a future beyond profit-driven systems could look like. :globe_showing_europe_africa: A world beyond capitalism is not anti-technology — it is pro-human. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Automation #FutureOfWork

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AI changes this equation drastically. And no, that’s not the fault of capitalism.

Look, anything under CAPITALISM always use for evil
" In CAPITALISM if their is any potential for evil it will be use for EVIL "

Unless we successfully but our own RBE nation . We will oppress by ruling class elites . They already bought media and AI models, as private players put filters and censorship we have no access to neutral information or fact checking.

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It’s funny how your radical absolutism makes me reply as someone who defends the status quo :joy:

But here we go again.

And yet the most free, happy and least corrupt countries are capitalist. The factor that makes evil flourish is centralized power, as we’ve seen in the Soviet Union and still see today in places like North Korea, China, Russia and Iran. Countries with a strong democracy and have distributed power over multiple independent branches of government, including an independent justice department, with liberty incorporated in a constitution makes a country less likely to be evil.

Chinese AI has those filters and censorship. Ask DeepSeek about e.g. Tiananmen Square…

Chinese AI is different their AI service is censored but it also opensource means that you can jail break or hack AI you can locally run AI modes on your machine .SO you are wrong in Open AI doesn’t have anything opensource . which means you don’t have any free flow of information

Dictator provide security and predictability. In Democracy distribution of powers means distribution of corruption

Tell me real do you really support RBE or CAPITALISM

Do you have any statistic that can back that up? Because this tells clearly a different story.

And happiness also linked to that.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-map-of-global-happiness-by-country-in-2024/

I don’t know why you keep insisting life under a dictatorship is cool and great. Why don’t you share some statistics for once.

DeepSeek is not open-source, it’s open weight. And you also completely deflect the point I make that China is censoring heavily in their society. Yet, you claim it’s the West that does that. While the West is most free and open society on the planet. There is no other angle of looking at that. You cannot criticize the Chinese government. They have concentration camps, they have a surveillance state with weak privacy laws.

Ah, I missed this one. Please stop using quote blocks for your own replies. That’s confusing.

I can ask you the same question. A dictatorship is nothing like an RBE. I just underscore that capitalism in and of itself doesn’t mean a nation becomes the corrupt hellhole you talk about. That’s centralized power. Like you see in China and other authoritarian countries. Those are not nice places to live. You seem very binary with this understanding. When I don’t fully agree with you, I must support the status quo according to you. Please, read my replies and sources carefully. I’m not making stuff up to make a point.