Do We Rage Against the AI Machine?

The Industrial Revolution was a time of great change. With the steam engine, industries shifted away from skilled human labour towards mechanisation and machinery. As a result, many specialised workers lost their jobs and were forced to adapt to their new reality. The Luddites, a radical organisation of textile workers who were made redundant by textile machines, retaliated by destroying these machines and assassinated business owners. The Luddites gained public sympathy as many were afraid that they, like the retrenched textile workers, would lose their jobs to automated machinery.