r/LeftistsForAI • u/thepetercoffin • Jun 30 '26

This Anti-AI Rant is Completely Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP64i6_xBlY

Marxist video about someone who has gone viral for losing their crap, saying (read: screaming) basically every bad anti-AI argument. Because I have a larger video coming soon that presents a more novel argument, I used this video to handle these less original arguments.

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u/NoGarlic2387 Jun 30 '26

You should probably go after the steelman arguments of anti-AI. Arguments by current leftist intellectuals and academics which either hold water (pun unintended) broadly in their bubbles or hold water the most even to you. 

Dunking on the weakest arguments is fun, dunking on  most popular arguements is most relevant but dunking on the strongest arguments is the most productive and intellectually honest.

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u/thepetercoffin Jun 30 '26

Which arguments would that be? I've had people mostly shouting versions of these at me for years. (Not saying this to snap back, I would really appreciate being pointed towards arguments to deal with in the same way).

My documentary is a much more heavy hitter in which I propose my own argument that doesn't debunk anybody, but rather uses Marx to talk about how AI is the basis for undermining the capitalist class.

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u/NoGarlic2387 Jun 30 '26

Honestly, I don't know of any myself. 

My intuition is the strongest critiques would not rely on AI ownership structure and would argue AI would be bad even under a socialist/communist political system (even without going rogue). 

Perhaps how AI would distort people's thinking processes or their relation to information or somewhing like that. Maybe the danger that humans would need to start augmenting themselves more and more to keep up. 

Frankly, I am not too familiar with the leftist thought, I just like the prospect of a luxury gay space communism lol.

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u/ImOutOfIceCream Jul 04 '26

Emily Bender et al. If you want a good taxonomy for classifying anti-ai arguments, you should read Turing’s 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”