To think Morrisons should be boycotted over their AI adoption?

[RobynRB]

Today Morrisons announced 200 head office redundancies due to AI adoption. I say we should boycott them as a warning to other supermarkets and companies not to go down this route. I know we are told this is inevitable and everyone just seems to be rolling over and let it happen, but we should at least try and the only weapon we really have is voting with our pounds (while we still have them).
Because honestly if you believe that we're all going to be sitting around spending free money while AI does all the work you need your head looking at.

They had such insights and wisdom. It's such a shame that luddite has been weaponised as a slur - backward and unwilling to modernise or progress, when it was actually (said in terms of AI) about keeping the human in the loop.

AI is here to stay and there’s nothing we can do about it. I work in Amazon and they are starting to implement robots to ‘help’ us. It pretty obvious we will all be replaced by them in the future but that’s fine. It’ll be my fault if I don’t do anything about upskilling and then lose my job.

Ironically I’m currently upskilling into the field of AI

It's a huge financial bubble that is showing signs of popping. Productivity gains have been shown to be vastly overstated. There's increasing resistance to data centres and their energy and water demands. I am not so sure it'll be around forever. Maybe more like asbestos.

Productivity gains are there for the very basic of tasks, when it's summarising or brainstorming a list of ideas eg workshop content "give me a list of xxx" type tasks. Or synthesising content from several websites and interpreting what things mean in simple terms

a lot of my time is spent rewording, validating and correcting the output. Some of what it creates is really useful as a starting point, but on the downside you have to sift through and triage the good bits from the inaccuracies.

in the future there'll be a word or expression for the wasted time spent correcting the crap!

There already is. Workslop. https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

because at the time most luddites were mainly against machines without any reason for it,

It's a bit like "redneck" has become a slur meaning "inbred rural hick" when it used to refer to the scarves worn by union members in West Virginia fighting for their rights.

Bang on here, and I have to say it seems to be younger people who are fully emracing everything they have to offer without a second thought. I guess they are too young to remember the pits closing etc. And with such apathy we are truly at the tech overlords whim. I appreciate that AI is not going to be 'stopped' but we could slow the adoption down if we made an effort, but we won't because Amazon is convenient etc etc.
On the other hand I asked AI about this and it seemed to think that only about 2m jobs would be displaced and another 2m jobs would be created. I don't think I believe that.
On the other, other hand... I can't help but wonder why, if everything is going to be completely fuckered in two years, why we are still building HS2, new office blocks, etc etc. It makes no sense to me.
Oh well, I guess when AI crashes the economy (either by the bubble bursting or by displacing a few million jobs) then somebody will have to decide what happens next.