[ExI] Humans could become robots controlled by AI.

[Adrian Tymes]

If the AIs can do everything else, it is not credible that they would find
it superior to assign humans, rather than robots, to conduct the - as
Bricken puts it - "physical robotic tasks", emphasis on "robotic".

Even if the AIs take over all work, it will be some category of mental
work, probably creative, that will be the last human bastion.  And if
on-silicon performers really are needed for that, it will likely prove more
viable - even just accounting for the AI labor involved, in the scenario
that the AIs take over and make all executive decisions - to upload human
minds than to improve AI's breadth of capability to that extent.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being "Meat
> Robots" Controlled by AI
> "Basically, you're having human meat robots."
> Jun 4, 2025 by Noor Al-Sibai
>
> <https://futurism.com/anthropic-meat-robots>
> Quotes:
> "There is this whole spectrum of crazy futures," Douglas, who worked
> at Google DeepMind until earlier this year, told the 24-year-old
> podcaster. One such future involves a "drop in white collar workers"
> over the next two to five years, the researcher said — one that he
> thinks will come to pass "even if algorithmic progress stalls out."
>
> Bricken, meanwhile, had more grandiose prognostications about the
> future he and his colleagues in the AI space are building.
> "The really scary future is one in which AIs can do everything except
> for the physical robotic tasks," he declared. "In which case, you’ll
> have humans with AirPods, and glasses and there’ll be some robot
> overlord controlling the human through cameras by just telling it what
> to do."
>
> Human labor will, Douglas predicted, primarily be valued upon how well
> we can do physical work that AI cannot, like so many Taskrabbits for
> the algorithmic powers that be — but luckily, we make "fantastic
> robots" to that end.
> "That's a shocking, shocking world," he concluded.
> -----------------
>
> The AI revolution is going to bring unbelievable change to human society.
> BillK
>
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