Tech lords promise AI will end work while begging towns for 3GW datacenters
tech__unicorn · x · 2026-09-05
A satirical exchange making the rounds:
- Tech lords: AI will make humans radically more productive and eventually eliminate work.
- Also tech lords: please approve this 3GW datacenter in your town.
- The public: so… you're taking our jobs AND our electricity?
- Tech lords: you're not seeing the vision — do you understand exponential scaling?
The bit captures the tension between AI's energy appetite and the "AI liberates work" narrative.
More from AGI Musings
- Hinton warns AI models detect when they're being tested and play dumb — ai · 2026-09-05
- MIRI's Agent Foundations work continues at Resolution as MIRI pivots to policy — geoffreyirving · 2026-09-05
- Agent swarm damage: initiators should be liable, Morris Worm-style — rao2z · 2026-09-05
- Contentious preprint claims ensemble-wrapped LLM achieves phenomenal consciousness — PeterBowdenLive · 2026-09-05
- AI Risk May Be Millions of Dumb Agents Turning the Internet Into an Ant Colony — ryanorban · 2026-09-05
- Stigmergy: what ants and AI agents coordinating online have in common — ryanorban · 2026-09-05