Will Generative AI (ChaptGPT) Promote Traditional Conservative Values and Lifestyles?

What will happen to wokeness when jobs dominated by progressive liberals are automated?

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I don’t know a single blue-collar worker that I would describe as woke.

Nor do I know of many blue-collar jobs that are likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence any time soon.

I hadn’t thought there could be a connection between those two statements and the future of the economy until I read an interesting commentary by Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon: “ChatGPT Will Sap the Woke World, Succor Conservatism.”

Let’s pause for a few definitions.

Blue-collar jobs are those that involve physical or manual labor, either skilled or unskilled. Blue-collar workers include police officers, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, roofers, construction workers, transportation workers, and so on.

Wikipedia offers this definition of woke:

Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination”. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism and LGBT rights. Woke has also been used as…