Alexandr Wang: we're all zombies — AI should be an escalator of human agency
davidsenra · x · 2026-11-06
davidsenra quotes a long-form take from Alexandr Wang (Scale AI/Meta): everyone starts with big dreams as a kid, but school and work grind that ambition out of us — "we're all zombies, we've lost our agency."
He argues one core promise of AI (via products like Muse) is to keep that agency growing: use AI to make your dreams happen, dream bigger, repeat — turning life into "an escalator of agency" instead of a slow crush of ambition.
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