Hillary Vipond on what history of labor-saving tech can (and can't) teach us about AI
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-12
Hillary Vipond responded to Soumitra Shukla's historical thread on mathematicians and AI anxiety, affirming the value of studying labor-saving technological change but adding two caveats:
- We need much more work on how (or whether) we can actually learn from history, and under what circumstances;
- (Second point left incomplete in the quoted text.)
Together with the original thread, it forms a discussion on the limits of historical analogy for AI's labor disruption.
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