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From Luddites to Language Models: Why the World Isn’t Ending


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Is AI going to end the world? Destroy every software company? Bankrupt the biggest tech companies on earth?

If you've watched the news lately, you'd think the answer to all three is yes.

Here's the problem: the math doesn't work. You can't be right about all of them at once.

This week we go all the way back to the Luddites — 19th century textile workers who literally smashed machines trying to stop the future — to explain why this moment feels scarier than it is, and what history actually tells us about how technological revolutions end.

Spoiler: it's not the way the headlines suggest.

Read more here: https://insightwealthgroup.com/the-weekly-insight-from-luddites-to-language-models-why-the-world-isnt-ending/

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The Weekly InsightBy Andrew Dorr