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- on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
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on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Fast food restaurants don’t really have kitchens any more, though. Just “stations” where frozen components are toasted or broiled, then shifted right into a wrapper.
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on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Read the story. That’s essentially what happens, as the economy contracts and only the fittest and quickest can survive doing labor, everybody else gets moved into basic income slums.
It’s not a long read, and Brain’s foresight around what happens to displaced workers is proving to be incredibly accurate.
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on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
The biggest risk I see is Idiocracy. Like, the movie.
Business workers become afraid to do or propose anything without AI signoff. Retail & service workers are told to do what the AI says, the way the AI says to do it, or get fired.
Technology innovator Marshall Brain (RIP) wrote a book in the early 2000s about an AI called “Manna” designed to replace fast food managers:
web.archive.org/web/20201204080050/…/manna1
The AI just talks in your ear all day: “Empty one bag of fries into the fryer. You have 6.5 minutes, switch to the sandwich station. Make one Big Burger: grab one patty from the 1/4 pound bin and place it on the griddle… … The fries are ready, turn around and lift them into the drain hopper…”
All day, every day, exactly 8 hours plus mandatory breaks, employees on autopilot listening on ear buds.
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on Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
I am shocked. Shocked, I say!
Well not that shocked.
You may be thinking of the first episode of the US version of Max Headroom?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk
“The only people that inactive are pensioners, the sick, or the unemployed. I mean, come on. Who really cares?”