BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18858239 SEQUENCE:19023625 CREATED:20230808T123800Z DESCRIPTION:8/10/23 SPEAK OUT!\nStop The Robo Taxis/Disney Dystopia & Newsom Democratic Party Corruption At CPUC\n\nThursday August 10th 9:30 AM\nSan Francisco Califfornia Public Utilitty Commission\n505 Van Ness/McAllister\nSan Francisco\n\nOn Thursday August 10, 2023, the California Public Utility Commission which is hand picked by Governor Gavin Newsom will be voting on whether to allow the Google Waymo and GM Cruise robo taxis to operate 24 hours a day in San Francisco. \nThe city which is ground central for capitalist AI developmenet has become a Disney Distopia with these vehicles stopping in the middle of streets and blocking the emergency services. Even the Fire Chief has said that a catastrophe will be coming with these vehicles on thee road.\nNewsom like former Governor Brown allow the crooks and\nbillionaires to run this agency. Brown kept corrupt CPUC chair Michael Peevey even though he was taking money from PG&E and was responsible for helping them cover up their murderous crimes.\nAllowing this dangerous madness in San Francisco where tech companies are using the people of San Francisco as guinea pigs is San Franccisco is another example of who these politicians like SF mayor London Breed and Democratic goverenor Gavin Newsom represent.\nThe policee could impound these vehicles for violaiting the vehicular code but Newsom,\nthe CPUC, DMV and Demoocratic legislature along witth London Breed\nhave given these companies a pass.\nOne rule for the people and drivers and another rule for the tech billionaires.\nThe Democats from Biden and Kamala Harris to Newsom and Breed are shills and operatives\nfor the introduction of AI regardless of tthe cost to workers and the public.\nGoldman Sacks says 350 million workers will lose their jobs because of capitaliist control\nof AI.\nWe demand that thtis not be approved by the CPUC but we need a working class political\nalterntive to the corruptt Democratic Party that runs California and the Republicans who\nalso support capitalist control of our economy.\nJoin the speak out at tthe CPUC to make your voice heard and to stop the mayhem and\nchaos these capitalists and their AI is causing.\nThe introduction and control of AI should be in the hands of working people and the public\nand it should benefit them rather than the capitalist class.\n\nNo Disney Distopia in San Francisco\nSTOP Newsom’s Corrupt CPUC NOW!\nBuild A Mass Democratic Labor Party \nUnited Front Committee For A Labor Party\ninfo@ufclp.org\n\nWhich class should control Artificial Intelligence: the workers or the bosses?\n8/7/23 Statement of UFCLP\n \nIn 1811 workers in England known as the Luddites understood that machines were going to be the ruination of their jobs and so they took matters into their own hands and broke up the machinery. The workers were tried and convicted for creating a capital crime since the state understood that the capitalists would soon be the dominant class and that the workers had to be suppressed. The role of technology then and now is to make sure that workers do more work with fewer of them doing the work. The capitalists have been hellbent ever since to replace workers with machines to increase profits and thus AI is the end product of this quest for profits. AI can now replace workers in almost every capacity, and it can reproduce itself becoming more and more “human” and thus replace more and more workers. It is estimated that over the next few years, 350 million workers will lose their jobs leaving devastation in its wake. The international economy is headed for a meltdown. The writers and actors were forced to go out on strike over this very issue. AI is planning to replace both the actors and writers by having it write scripts that a team of writers use to write and it is using this same technology to scrape the images of actors and produce shows with the likeness of these same actors. Artificial intelligence can persuade us to buy things either of a political or a personal nature. AI is magical for the employers but is dangerous for the workers. So, who should control it or should unions call for its demise? Can AI be a boon to humankind if it is in the right hands? Its potential is enormous.\n \nAI more than anything else raises the question of which class should rule. With Its proliferation, millions will inevitably be thrown out of work and education will be undermined since learning will be automated. Moreover, ChatGbt has taken the place of researching a topic and writing papers so that students will not necessarily learn how to learn. AI teachers will be in the classroom replacing real flesh and blood workers and while this can be an excellent adjunct to the teacher, it will be replacing them instead. The implications are vast and far reaching since there then will be no limits to how many students will be put in a classroom, bad for students and for the teachers. Does it have to be this way? Can technology advance the emancipation of humanity, or will humanity only be a slave to it? This discussion needs to be had, but the answer must clearly be that only under workers’ control can it be an advance. There is no reason why workers must continue to work 40 50, 60 or more hours a week leaving no room to play if technology can do much of the work for us. Workers have historically had no time for themselves because, under capitalism , capitalists must produce millions of things in order to rake in outstanding rates of profits, but with AI there would be no need to produce so many things in order to maximize one's profit. The market is by its nature anarchic because of this constant need to produce which leads to creating tremendous surpluses that cannot be absorbed causing depressions. The capitalists are bent on destruction, not only of the economy, but of the planet itself. The earth is being raped to obtain natural resources that go into making products that last only for a short time and then are discarded. It is obvious that global warming has become a permanent fixture, just for the sake of increasing profits. As workers continue to object, AI will become more and more an impediment to protest since AI will be able to surveil crowds in a more efficient way. The potential for human expansion is enormous, but on the other hand, given that AI rests in the hands of the capitalist, the potential for destruction is enormous as well. It’s only with a workers’ government that Artificial Intelligence can guarantee freedom for all workers. The major impediment to realizing a socialist society are the union bureaucrats who align themselves with the capitalists instead of defending its members. \nThere needs to be a united front of all workers and unions to discuss AI and the effect on all workers and the working class as a whole. The strikes by the Writers Guild West and SAG-AFTRA need to link up with Teamsters, longshore workers, healthcare and education workers to challenge the system that is destroying millions of workers jobs or profits. \nThese union “leaders” who tell us to rely on the Democrats to protect workers from AI are disorientating and deluding working people. The Democrats represent the tech billionaires and have allowed Elon Musk and other billionaires a free hand to discriminate, have illegal mass layoffs to avoid unions and wreak havoc on our world.\nThe continued support for the capitalist Democratic party by our union officials is an obstacle to fighting capitalist control of AI. The Democrats are controlled lock stock and barrel by the tech billionaires. Biden’s deal with the tech barons to self regulate themselves is a joke taken at face value by Biden who is a tool for them.\nWe need a new leadership in our unions based on working class control and power and want to unite the working class to fight against the massive attacks.\nOur Survival Is At Stake!\n \nDemocrats and Republicans OUT!\nBuild a Mass Democratic Labor Party NOW!\nUnited Front Committee For A Labor Party\nhttps://ufclp.org\ninfo@ufclp.org\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/08/18858239.php SUMMARY:Stop The Robo Taxis/Disney Dystopia & Newsom Democratic Party Corruption At CPUC LOCATION:California Public Utility Commission\n505 Van Ness/McAllister\nSan Francisco URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/08/18858239.php DTSTART:20230810T163000Z DTEND:20230810T173000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR