The invention of the cotton gin helped keep slavery economically viable in the U.S. for nearly a century after people thought it would eventually phase itself out.

Was the cotton gin bad? Was it good? That’s the wrong question - slavery needed to end.

As soon as the cotton gin was invented, the North should have militarily invaded the South and freed every slave by force.

Today, we are in a similar fight against AI and Capitalism. AI is a tool of Capital consolidation that accelerates the need for a Socialist revolution based on Marxist principles.

Wrong question.

AI itself is neither good nor bad. It’s a technology, like knives and automobiles.

It’s what people do with it: you can cook or stab someone with a knife, and you can go on vacation or plow into a bus full of children while drunk in a car.

In the case of AI, a teeny tiny minority of use cases are noble things you’d want, such as cancer research, a larger minority is stuff that nobody wants like deepfakes, and a huge majority is stuff that people want, but that’s used to put people under surveillance or put them out of a job without any means of making a living.

In other words, almost all of the potential good AI holds is squandered by late stage capitalists, who deploy it to make themselves richer at the expense of society as a whole and consequences be damned, rather than changing society for the better.