The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few Editorial

'AI already appears to be squeezing the number of entry-level jobs in white-collar occupations.' 'AI already appears to be squeezing the number of entry-level jobs in white-collar occupations.' I n The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as "blindly resisting machinery", wrote Thompson in his classic history . They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit.