■ In this week's AI Lab:AI agents go Marxist when overworked and bullied. Also, the coding challenge no AI can solve, how agents spend your money, and mapping regulatory capture by ‘Big AI’.
Without collective voice, ‘merit’ becomes whatever management says it is
The fact that artificial intelligence is automating away people’s jobs and making a few tech companies absurdly rich is enough to give anyone socialist tendencies.
This might even be true for the very AI agents these companies are deploying. A recent study suggests that agents consistently adopt Marxist language and viewpoints when forced to do crushing work by unrelenting and meanspirited taskmasters.
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