Is the AI revolution really similar to the industrial revolution?
Yes, structurally. Both involve machines displacing established labor, wealth concentrating among the owners of new infrastructure, and communities losing political say over technology reshaping their lives. The industrial revolution's early decades were brutal before reforms arrived — historians increasingly cite it as the closest precedent for AI's disruption.
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