“Instead of building machines to isolate us from the bleak future we have foretold for ourselves, I would rather spend my energy trying to build the world I actually want to live in. A world that places people above profit, that looks at the promises of automation and artificial intelligence and sees leisure and self-actualization, not increasingly

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Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water. Elevato

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