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The Rise and Fall of the AI Apocalypse

It's not all not sunshine and roses
An AI generated text bubble that says "When the AI Colilile akes all the coffee breaks"

A little over a year ago (let's be honest, I'm lazy and it's been quite a bit more than a year), I wrote about the dangers of AI. It wasn't the danger that AI posted directly, but the danger that an unequal distribution of its utility would have on an unprepared economy. The tl;dr is that those currently with power would control the AI, the AI would replace human white-collar workers, and the rest of humanity would be consigned to the complex low-wage physical labor that our robots cannot yet do. And I predicted that this could happen within a year.

Slaves to Men with Machines

The coming AI dystopia nobody is talking about
Dall-E generated image of a robot face, edited with the OpenAI logo for eyes

In Frank Herbert's Dune novels, there's a historical footnote that plays in one of the underlying themes of the series. There was a time in the history of humanity, still in our future, when humanity dev thinking machines, computers with human-like minds that quickly replaced human labor in almost every sense. In Herbert's vision, this leads to a brief utopia for humanity. But it doesn't last, because very quickly "people became slaves to other men with machines".

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