“Real AI isn’t sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form.”
– Scholar and
Resisting AI (2022) author Dan McQuillan, equating AI adoption with a now infamous period of
British austerity. “Case after case, from
Australia to the
Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor,” argues McQuillan. “Like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable.”
