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“Jedoch finden sich keine Beweise, inwiefern sogenannte Sicherheitsmaßnahmen ihrem Titel gerecht werden: Sie verhindern keine Taten, sondern „[gaukeln] dies nur vor“, wie Kai Biermann im neusprech.org-Blog argumentiert. Vielmehr stellen die hier genannten Gesetze Bürger unter Generalverdacht und beeinflussen die Dynamiken einer Demokratie: Menschen verändern ihr Verhalten, wenn sie sich beobachtet fühlen. Freie Lebensentfaltung ist daraufhin weder im privaten noch öffentlichen Raum gewährleistet.“

“In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would have advanced sufficiently by century’s end that countries like Great Britain or the United States would achieve a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed.“

“A lot of AI researchers and pundits imagine that the world is already digital, and that simply introducing new AI systems will immediately trickle down to operational changes in the field, in the supply chain, on the factory floor, in the design of products. Nothing could be further from the truth.”