Are We Afraid of AI or a Jobless Society?
VraserX · x · 2026-07-12
The post poses a rhetorical question: Will future generations think that we feared machines that could liberate humanity, yet we stubbornly maintained systems that wasted human lives?
It shifts the focus to a larger issue: What we truly fear might not be AI itself, but rather a lifestyle no longer centered around work.
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