Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?

Throughline examines the historical Luddite rebellion, a 19th-century labor movement that fought industrial automation, to understand modern anxieties about artificial intelligence. The episode responds to a listener's question about what the Luddites' struggle for human agency can teach us in the face of AI-driven job displacement. Historian Katrina Navickas provides context on the political and social pressures that drove skilled workers to destroy machinery.