AI researcher questions the point of building tech that causes mass unemployment
soldni · x · 2026-09-13
AI researcher soldni poses an ethical challenge: even with slowdown (which he argues we should do), what is the upside of building a technology that would cause — in the best case — mass unemployment?
A pointed entry in the ongoing debate over AI's societal impact and the ethics of continued development.
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