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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, Brain Merchant, Little, Brown and Company, September 2023, 496 PP

dall-e draws for me, suno composes music for me, sora generates movies for me, deepl is responsible for foreign language translation, autopilot drives for me, chatgpt chats with me... optimists in the ai ​​era can imagine a consumer-oriented ai future . but what worry-minded people see is a more important question: who will pay my salary? will the comprehensive application of the above-mentioned ai technology make me laid off and unemployed?

"los angeles times" columnist brian merchant (brain merchant) is undoubtedly a worrier. in 2023, mochin published the book "blood in the machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech". the author wants to answer the urgent modern problem of "ai unemployment", but his eyes are set on the depths of history. with the original intention of learning from history, mochin comprehensively reviews the luddite movement that broke out in england in the early 19th century. in the author's opinion, the luddite movement was the product of the first wave of large-scale replacement of human jobs by technology. the title of the book "blood in the machine" symbolizes the luddite movement - a bloody conflict caused by the introduction of machines. the author believes that although that movement took place two centuries ago, the tensions contained in it still influence today's technological development and labor employment, because the way our economy is organized and the mode in which technology is introduced into society have not undergone fundamental changes. , exactly how ai technology will shape the future of humanity still depends in many ways on the perception of this movement and its legacy.