Do you feel excitement or dread when looking at the growth of AI? In today’s briefing, we dismantle the 200-year-old smear campaign against the Luddites to understand the future of work. We explore Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine to reveal why the Luddites were actually skilled early adopters who fought against the breaking of the social contract, not the technology itself. Learn why “efficiency” is often a code word for exploitation and how to ensure you aren’t leading like an 1811 factory owner.

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