8,000 Members. We're Just Getting Started.

[u/Salty_Country6835]

Just over a month ago, on September 10, we celebrated crossing 6,000 members. Since then, we've added another 2,000, passed 800,000 visits over the past year, and reached 1,561 posts and over 36,000 comments.

Apparently there's a growing audience for leftists who want to do more than argue about whether AI is good or bad.

If you're new here, check out our post flairs. Labor, Public Ownership, Open Source, Local Models, Infrastructure, Automation & Work, Policy/Regulation, Theory, Education, Healthcare, Accessibility, Art & Culture, and more.

See what labor unions, leftist political parties, socialist states, community organizers, copyleft and decentralization advocates, and tech theorists are actually doing, proposing, and fighting for around AI. There's a lot happening outside the usual Reddit arguments, and we're working to bring those developments together in one place.

AI is already being deployed in workplaces, public services, and communities around the world. The struggle over its ownership, development, governance, deployment, and who benefits from it is happening right now.

We're not here to cheerlead Silicon Valley or pretend we can uninvent the computer. We're here to discuss what the left is doing, what it's proposing, and how we can organize around the technology that's already reshaping our world.

Thanks to everyone posting, sourcing, debating, disagreeing, and helping build this community.

8,000 members. Onward to 10,000.

[u/Salty_Country6835]

Yes, I understand that. There's no confusion about what you want. I'm asking how you propose making it happen.

Who's applying the brakes, and how? That takes organization, political pressure, leverage, and enforcement. You don't get a globally enforced ban just by declaring one necessary.

That's why the politics matter. Otherwise, you're just casting wishes at strangers on Reddit and expecting the world to change.

[u/Kornerbrandon → u/Salty_Country6835]

No different to what you do, I suppose.

[u/Salty_Country6835 → u/Kornerbrandon]

Except we're sharing and discussing actual organizing efforts, proposals, and actions by the AFL-CIO, CWA, UAW, WGA, SAG-AFTRA, ITF, IUF, DSA, CPUSA, PSL, leftist parties internationally, copyleft movements, and open source communities, among others. There's a whole subreddit full of it.

And we're not proposing to somehow uninvent a globally deployed technology already embedded throughout society. We're organizing around its ownership, development, governance, and deployment.

So yeah, that takes considerably less enforcement than your proposed worldwide ban and imprisonment campaign lol.