hey, bernie. do you know what they call it when technology takes away jobs from workers/slaves? that's called communism. and, do you know what they call people that resist it? conservative reactionaries.
now, that said, if this change occurs without any sort of government oversight, it is sure to create a mess of unemployment, but fighting against progress is sisyphean and would be pyrrhic if it were successful. cancelling ai is a foolish approach to dealing with the challenges presented by it.
rather, it would seem like some legislation written by somebody like a senator to help displaced workers find new jobs, or to capture and redistribute profit streams, would be a better approach.
i'm not sure what the senator really wants in the end if he's opposed to technology eliminating shit jobs. that's the point of being a leftist. fighting for increases in working conditions is one thing, but it's a reaction to a simpler time and a less advanced technological reality. when you have the ability for the machines to take over in front of you, and you're fighting against it instead of for it, you're neither siding with workers nor with capital. you're just resisting change for the sake of it. you're just afraid.
i'm strongly in favour of ai displacing workers and any worker would be, but i understand that such a change will require a parallel shift in ownership of the machine and in how commodities are distributed. fight for that. don't fight to turn the clocks back, or off. that's neither pro-worker, nor pro-management, nor leftist. it's base conservatism. and i don't support that.