It says a lot about who holds control in today’s world by how we talk about AI.

The “inevitability” that surrounds the AI conversation – as in, there is no choice but to just adopt this technology, so get on board or get left behind – is, of course, a fallacy.

Humans are trained to find patterns, and so many new technologies of the past have been retrofitted as being “inevitable” changes, which, of course, they weren’t. There were usually competing ideas and technologies, and as with most changes, they were rarely the result of one person or product, but a series of discoveries converging and incorporating into one.

Outsourcing our intelligence, we are told, is one of the last great frontiers. And our governments are rushing to embrace it, lest they be left behind in the “inevitable” wave of change. Even as we allow just a select few to own the future. This is “innovation”. To fight against it, or to even attempt to regulate it, is to be derided as a Luddite.

But Luddites get a bad wrap. Far from being ignorant, Luddites were textile workers who just wanted a fair deal. They found themselves replaced almost overnight by factories and weaving machines and, after appeals to factory owners and government for fair compensation and a transition package were ignored, took to destroying the........

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