"Agentic Alienation": staying responsible for work while AI separates you from it
lorenseanstewart · reddit · 2026-09-10
A Reddit post coins "Agentic Alienation": remaining responsible for work while AI agents separate you from its product, its process, the capabilities it develops, and the relationships it sustains. The author stresses that alienation is a relationship before it is a feeling — borrowing the Marxist alienation framework to describe labor in the agent era, prompting discussion of skill atrophy and worker identity.
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