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You need to be able to tell that something is wrong with this headline without anyone explaining it to you.
This is a spurious correlation if I've ever seen one.
Perceiving the government as loudly and publicly placing anything ahead of regular people and their jobs is what erodes democracy. The feeling that someone is not represented to elected representatives. Most elections over the last 30 years have been about this as a core economic element. Globalzied manufacturing was the Big Bad for decades before AI came along.
People who perceive artificial intelligence as destroying jobs are significantly more dissatisfied with the functioning of democracy.
This line from the article is significantly different from the headline
The AI slop used to write that "article" was stuck on autorepeat.
You should fix the clanker.
Not sure I like that this headline / research seems to frame the issue as a PR problem. I don't want to be filled with a bunch of AI slop to try to convince me that AI is not a threat to my job. I think overall I have a pretty balanced view of AI — though how many of us realize when we are unhinged — but I think it'll eventually settle into a tool which increases efficiency, slightly reduces jobs in certain sectors just like the farm combine did, and not a lot will change overall.
The thing negatively influencing my faith in democracy is so many of the people of the world voting for right-wing and autocratic parties. I feel like democracy has failed us in that respect. On the other hand I don't know of a better solution. AI isn't really involved there.
I wonder if there isn't a more fundamental connection between people who observe the direction of the world and those who see that corporations are falling over themselves to eliminate workers and are deeply worried that they just might succeed to the detriment of all.
People's trust in democracy SHOULD BE 0%. It's all fake, it always has been. It's an illusion of control for us, so we don't resist and try to break free of the open-air prison we live in.
Revolution is the only way out.
Trump and co just successfully revolted and are now attempting to institute their ideological vision
Did you account for it being someone else’s revolution?
It's less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.
But it's not "Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him." Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.
The system really is working exactly as intended.
Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.
For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.
My point is that we need to recognize that Fascism is already here and that we need to accept that democracy has failed us here. We need to fight for a better world, we can't just vote our way out of this.
Clapping our hands and saying "I do believe in Democracy!" won't bring it back.
I know it’s boring but we very likely will just vote our way out of this
This is really not the first Trump type president in American history so I’m not sure why we’re all assuming it all ends here
Trump isn't the problem, the problem is twofold - firstly, Trump won the popular vote, meaning that at least half of active voters voted for a totally incompetent fascist. This suggests a slightly more competent fascist would be even more successful.
The second problem is that the system that makes fascism inevitable will remain in place and no amount of voting will ever dismantle that system, because the powerful & wealthy ruling class work very hard to ensure the system that keeps them wealthy & powerful stays that way.
The only way to change the system is to dismantle it completely.
Problem is, we've never found a better system. They all suck, in various ways, many of them far worse than representative democracy. And that's even if no one's messing with the details of the setup to keep a certain group in power.
Important to note that most of the "AI will take your job" rhetoric is spun up by the AI industry, not fact
I perceive the paradigm of the economy and capitalist demands on labor as eroding my trust in democracy and participation in society.
Guys. I just found out were supposed to "believe" in or trust democracy.
I had no idea!
The article itself looks like it's written with AI. Inconsistencies, repetitions, dull language and an unnecessary bullet point summary at the end. While I haven't read the actual study, nothing in the article seems to explain what makes this causation instead of correlation.
Personally I'm a bit annoyed with articles like these because they try to create the impression that criticism of AI only stems from it being too powerful, instead of recognizing that the technology has very real capability limits. What is presented as two opposing viewpoints is effectively just one. AI boosters and AI doomers are both strong believers in something that hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen for a very long time.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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