Philip Zelikow in TLS: ‘The Swedish labour market made a different bargain half a century ago. Today in Sweden, employer-financed job security councils, created by collective agreement in the 1970s, retrain and replace workers whom technology displaces, and they work well enough that Swedish unions have become famous for welcoming automation.’

As well: ‘So the fundamental question that both books circle is not whether the machines will master the humans or the humans will master the machines. And this is because whether AI becomes an instrument of broad human empowerment is not a property of the technology and will not be settled by it. Instead, it will be settled in regulatory fights in American statehouses and royal colleges, in reimbursement rules and collective agreements, in Brussels directorates and procurement offices, in the choices of managers nobody has heard of.’

In other words, God send us the right managers and regulators.

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