Viral post attributed to Anthropic employee: humans won't do economically useful work much longer
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit post shares an X screenshot from the account EigenGender (claimed to be an Anthropic employee, unverified) arguing there is no future where humans keep doing economically useful work for much longer — the best outcome being various flavors of "ASI lets humans have fun and play make believe."
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