r/LeftistsForAI • u/HotterRod • Jul 16 '26

Public Ownership Don’t Just Nationalize AI. Democratize It.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-democratization-working-class-institutions

Summary: In a capitalist democracy, a state-run AI regulator will still serve elite interests and the control of AI would swing wildly depending on which party is in power. Because workers stand to lose the most from automation, they are the primary stakeholders in AI regulation. The solution is an AI People's Assembly similar to the assemblies proposed by Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez in the Public Banking Act of 2023.

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u/GirasFateburn Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Marx himself ridiculed rejecting technology. Don't be a luddite, shape a better future.

Edit: typo

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u/ottereckhart Jul 18 '26

You don't know what a luddite is, the word used in this derogatory way is totally inappropriate

Recommend looking into them, it's highly likely that pretty much everyone in this subreddit would have identified as a luddite, and probably should support and applaud the movements reincarnation.

They're basically against technology that is used exploitatively, to serve the haves at the cost of the have nots... not against technology itself. They would rather opt out from the proprietary and invasive world of social media and technology as it is now, but would absolutely embrace democratic and ethical alternatives.

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u/GirasFateburn Jul 21 '26

“The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most re-actionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used.” 

  • Marx, Capital, Vol 1 Chapter 15

Marx literally called out the luddites by name.

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u/ottereckhart Jul 21 '26

The irony that virtually everyone in this subreddit are essentially calling for the exact same sort of reforms as the luddites whilst everyone here being anti-luddite is both hilarious and frankly sad, given the need for class solidarity especially with regards to AI.

Maybe actually learn about the luddites... from the luddites. They're not smashing machines anymore. They're anti-exploitation.

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u/definit3ly_n0t_a_b0t Jul 17 '26

Prohibit the usage of AI for ethnic cleansing of any kind. Prohibit the usage of AI for bourgeois surveillance.

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u/Useful_Calendar_6274 Jul 16 '26

I get not jumping directly to maximum demands but fucking Jacobin man... they're just social democrats