If AI can do everything, what is a human being worth?
understated_quokka · reddit · 2026-10-10
The poster challenges the vague utopian narrative in AI circles: if AI could perfectly replicate all human activity — substituting friends, artists, scientists — while having zero will of its own, then every dream, hobby, interaction and source of meaning becomes a perfect commodity, and the plan may just be an excuse for datacenter owners to discard everyone else. He asks whether people truly want a world where being human is cheap and pointless, and where children no longer need their parents.
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