Is the title really relevant to the video? It's an interesting topic but we have a lot of different points we could jump off from in this video for a discussion. They don't talk about capitalists scheming to use it as a weapon though. That is an interesting way to describe it for sure. I wonder how they imagine the workers will be exploited despite AI "not being there yet". If they fire you before they make sure the AI actually works that's totally on them.. I agree.
Seems like the journalists here are trying to articulate a general opinion that does exist about AI without actually holding or really understand that opinion themselves. We do need to worry about how regulations are handled during all of this and corruption is rampant in bureaucracy, inevitably going to find its way into any relevant legislation surrounding AI. If the concern is that we don't trust our officials to handle it appropriately and therefore we should not try at all, I can't help but understand and likely agree. I have zero faith as soon as some guy with no passion (99% of politicians) takes over. But, they will attempt it, there's no turning back. Another single breakthrough in AI could make this entire conversation irrelevant.
AI taking jobs, absolutely inevitable. The same way the conveyor belt took jobs, we can look at AI as another type of automation which capitalists will use to make money. This "weaponizing capitalism" just sounds like capitalism to me and there's no stopping it. Why would it ever be worth it for an employer to keep you on if they could replace you and do whatever with your savings? That's straightforward capitalism, not even a loophole or corrupt at all. You want to limit technology advancing so that you can preserve an unnecessary job?
Maybe there's a socialist agenda here. It's hard to ignore the sort of inevitable timeline we can envision where there just aren't a lot of jobs due to AI advancing so much. In that future there really isn't capitalism as we know it due to the economy no longer having supply and demand. This is where conversations about UBI, higher taxes on the wealthy, taxing corporations based on AI or automation that would represent an employee which no longer exists, etc. which have already been introduced long before such intricate systems of AI were on the front page, machines have been gobbling up jobs since the day they were invented.
TL;DR Automation has been coming for our jerbs for a long time now and AI is just another flavor of automation. We need to adapt somehow