Hugging Face's Noyant: Embodied AI saves lives but isn't profitable under capitalism
mervenoyann · x · 2026-09-13
ML engineer Merve Noyant argued on X that all industries are bad under late-stage capitalism—AI just feels louder because it carries a "Promethean shame."\n\nResponding to a point about slowing down AI development, she said she'd like AI to solve health and wants physical AI deployed widely so humans stop dying in accidents, but workers in those dangerous jobs cost so little that embodied AI remains unprofitable for companies. She's skeptical of abundance promises, arguing the third world has always paid the price for capitalism's failed abundance pledge.
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