YAPAY ZEKA LUDİZMİ HORTLATIR MI?
WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESURRECT LUDDISM?

Summary/Abstract: Artificial intelligence, particularly with the proliferation of generative AI systems, is having significant impacts on working life, professions, modes of production, and social inequalities. This transformation is prompting a rethinking of the Luddite movement that emerged in 19th-century England against textile machinery. While Luddism is often understood as hostility towards technology, in its historical context it should be considered more as a reaction to the devaluation of labor, the disappearance of livelihoods, and the exclusion of workers from decision-making processes. Artificial intelligence affects Luddism in two ways: on the one hand, it can strengthen neo-Luddite tendencies by increasing job losses, skill erosion, income inequality, and concerns about control; on the other hand, when supported by the right policies, it can become a tool that increases employee productivity, creates new job opportunities, and develops a more constructive social approach to technological transformation. Therefore, whether artificial intelligence strengthens Luddism depends more on how this technology is managed than on the technology itself.

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