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The complete sequence of major transitions in deep history runs like this:
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
New bureaucracy takes the form not of a specific, delimited function performed by particular workers but invades all areas of work, with the result that – as Kafka prophesied – workers become their own auditors, forced to assess their own performance.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
By describing as *super*human a thing that is entirely insensible and unthinking, an object without desire or hope but relentlessly productive and adaptable to its assigned economically valuable tasks, we implicitly erase or devalue the concept of a “human” and all that a human can do and strive to become. Of course, attempts to erase and devalue the most humane parts of our existence are nothing new; AI is just a new excuse to do it.
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
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