AI Is Being Used to Cut Wages, Not Expand Possibility
Much of the public conversation about artificial intelligence treats it as a creative breakthrough or a new form of intelligence. A more sober analysis suggests something far less inspiring. AI is being adopted primarily as a labor strategy. Its main appeal to corporations is not innovation or delight, but the ability to reduce wage costs by eliminating or devaluing human workers. This framing matters because it cuts through the hype. When companies talk about AI as inevitable or transformative, they are often masking a much simpler goal. They want fewer people on the payroll. The Myth of Inevitability Large tech firms consistently present AI adoption as unavoidable, as if there were no viable alternatives. This rhetoric echoes an older political move that insists there is no alternative to the current system. Framing AI this way shuts down debate before it begins and discourages exploration of different economic or technological paths. Even the branding around AI reinforces t...