A Farmer-Writer Proposes One Clause for the AI Age: 'AI Robots Shall Not Build or Repair AI Robots'
Wrong-Expression6981 · reddit · 2026-09-30
A farmer and writer in his sixties poses a thought experiment: if AI and robots do almost all work and humans are free to play, what are humans for? He argues work is part of human nature, and giving all of it away means giving away something of ourselves.
He cites history: when railroads and cars arrived, coachmen became engineers and mechanics — the work moved. But in a world where robots build and repair robots, human work has nowhere to go, and we risk becoming 'the forgotten coachmen.'
His draft clause for a social contract: 'AI robots shall not build or repair AI robots' — reserving one domain of labor for humans. He invites disagreement and better wording.
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