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As AI comes to play a bigger role in industry, the left cannot surrender in advance. While we shouldn’t imagine AI technologies as a cure-all — but nor should we dismiss them or the productivity gains some of them might offer. This moment in our industrial history is a critical juncture, one which presents us with an opportunity to democratize the control and use of AI, and to remake the welfare state in a way commensurate to the change and consistent with the social, political, and cultural goals we collectively choose. We should seize it and make AI work for us, at our command.