Irresponsible AI Reading List - July 2025

This month's Irresponsible AI Reading List for July 2025 reveals masks dropping as power consolidates. CEOs start saying the quiet part out loud: AI will wipe out jobs documents corporate leadership openly celebrating planned workforce reductions through AI automation, abandoning pretenses about "augmentation" or "creating new opportunities" in favor of straightforward acknowledgment that cost-cutting through headcount reduction drives AI investment decisions.

Systemic analysis deepens with Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?, which examines how AI development concentrates power in ways that resemble feudal hierarchies more than markets. The paper argues that AGI deployment by concentrated interests could eliminate economic agency for most humans, creating permanent dependency relationships mediated by algorithmic systems controlled by a narrow elite. This isn't speculative dystopia - it's extrapolation from observable trends in platform capitalism and AI development.

The shift from June is notable: where last month documented individual harms and technical failures, July reveals structural transformation. We're watching capital openly embrace AI as a tool for labour discipline and wealth concentration, whilst academics model the endgame of that trajectory. The question isn't whether these systems will harm people - executives are now explicit about that intent - but whether democratic institutions can mount any resistance.

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