Kevin Surace traces sabotage back to 19th-century French workers throwing wooden shoes into machines. He argues today's tech workers deliberately blocking AI automation will lose anyway, and should collaborate instead of resist.
This AI expert revealed why fighting AI has never worked. The word sabotage comes from France, and it comes from France over 100 years ago when they were rolling out the first machines during the First Industrial Revolution. And these machines could help make clothing, it could help make shoes. And what the workers did is they would throw their shoes, their sabots, into the machine to clog up the machine, break the machine so that it'd be down for a week or two because someone had to come and repair it. They were sabotaging automation. So here we are again, and developers, QA people, by By the way, CS people, customer service people, etc., are sabotaging the automation because they see it and they go, I don't want to lose my job.
