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How to Survive the A.I. Revolution | The New Yorker

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The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

Save this story Save this story In the early hours of April 12, 1812, a crowd of men approached Rawfolds Mill, a four-story stone building on the banks of the River Spen, in West Yorkshire. This was Brontë country—a landscape of bleak moors, steep valleys, and small towns nestled in the hollows. The men, who’d assembled on the moors hours earlier, were armed with muskets, sticks, hatchets, and heavy blacksmith’s hammers. When they reached the mill, those at the front broke windows to gain entry, and some fired shots into the darkened factory. But the mill’s owner, William Cartwright, had been

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