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Is a calculator a slave? Is a car a slave? What a silly blogpost. We have always been automating away the things we don't want to do, even before AI.
by cognitiveinline 2mo ago
Is a calculator a slave? Is a car a slave? What a silly blogpost.
We have always been automating away the things we don't want to do, even before AI.
- some_furry 2mo agoIt's not that silly of a blogpost. See: "permanent underclass", a term popular among people that believe that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent and desirable.
- cognitiveinline 2mo agoI don't know where you imagine these people to congregate and coin these terms, but I've not come across anything like that.
- watwut 2mo agoAnthropic and OpenAI talk about humans being obsolete and about replacing human workers too. Permanent underclass is expression for that.
- skeledrew 2mo agoWe may cast a human connection to slavery, but from the owners' perspective, the whole point is automating away the things they don't want to do. Fundamentally there's no difference.