Writer crowdsources 200+ Redditors on what an AI-era social contract should include
Wrong-Expression6981 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A Korean writer-farmer in his 60s, after being removed from an AI subreddit, took one question to multiple Reddit communities — if AI and robots do most of the work, what belongs in a new social contract? He got 200+ replies.
- The top answer: "who decides?" — many believe the rich and powerful will write the rules anyway
- Then: enforcement, a transition-period floor, the right to live without AI, a ban on autonomous killing machines, and voice for people outside rich countries
- He notes none of these six made it into his book/game draft There Is No Mars; 10% of book sales go to reader-voted causes, with public receipts
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