Scoble counters automation job-loss fears: 'Do you want your kids picking strawberries?'
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-04
Paras Chopra argued it's "crazy" that so many smart engineers and researchers pursue full autonomy while shrugging off the consequence of leaving everyone jobless.
Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) pushed back with a historical analogy: horses hated cars too. His pointed retort: "Do you want your kids to pick strawberries? Why do you want to doom someone else's kid to that life?"
The exchange captures the two poles of the AI employment debate — mass job displacement fears versus the view that freeing people from menual labor is precisely the point of technological progress.
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