🌻 notes on AI, labor, and China

Jasmine Sun · 13 May 2026 · jasmi.news ↗

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Whether AI disruption produces a permanent underclass is a policy choice, not an inevitable consequence of the technology.

Their wordsFirst, because it signals how much collateral damage the A.I. companies will tolerate en route to A.G.I. And second, because the production of a social underclass is a policy choice.
Our reading
AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used.

Their wordsUnfortunately, I think building "tool AI" is basically cope.
Our reading
Whether AI augments or automates workers depends on a firm's economic context, not on the technology itself.

Their wordsThe same technology that augments workers in a growing firm automates workers in a shrinking one.