A World Without People
5 hours ago
- #Billionaire solipsism
- #Labor automation
- #AI critique
- The article critiques AI as a tool for billionaires to fantasize about a world without people, enabling control without human workers or professionals.
- AI promises bosses the ability to replace workers, writers, actors, nurses, teachers, scientists, and coders with pliable chatbots, prioritizing profit over societal value.
- Billionaires' solipsism leads them to dismiss others as NPCs, using AI to avoid human interactions that challenge their authority or expose their lack of expertise.
- Professions like healthcare and education resist automation due to 'cost disease,' but AI is seen as a way to dismantle ethical standards for capital accumulation.
- Examples include Elon Musk's NPC comments, Effective Altruism, and tech bosses like Mark Zuckerberg seeking AI to optimize social interactions for profit.
- The piece warns that AI-driven Universal Basic Income could consolidate power among billionaires, reducing democratic control to meaningless consumer choices.