My quibble matters for two reasons: 1. The way that the AI-pushing tech leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Satya Nadella actually talk when they think no one is listening is AFAICT completely different from that Hecht quote. They are delusional, megalomaniacal. They wouldn’t gloat about getting away with labor theft; the concept of “labor theft” does not even exist for them. How can it be theft when they deserved it, when they are messianic figures whose wealth is proof of their infallible rightness? If we want to oppose this destructive AI bubble, we should understand what we’re opposing. 2/