<div dir="ltr">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".<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being "Meat<br>
Robots" Controlled by AI<br>
"Basically, you're having human meat robots."<br>
Jun 4, 2025 by Noor Al-Sibai<br>
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<<a href="https://futurism.com/anthropic-meat-robots" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://futurism.com/anthropic-meat-robots</a>><br>
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"There is this whole spectrum of crazy futures," Douglas, who worked<br>
at Google DeepMind until earlier this year, told the 24-year-old<br>
podcaster. One such future involves a "drop in white collar workers"<br>
over the next two to five years, the researcher said — one that he<br>
thinks will come to pass "even if algorithmic progress stalls out."<br>
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Bricken, meanwhile, had more grandiose prognostications about the<br>
future he and his colleagues in the AI space are building.<br>
"The really scary future is one in which AIs can do everything except<br>
for the physical robotic tasks," he declared. "In which case, you’ll<br>
have humans with AirPods, and glasses and there’ll be some robot<br>
overlord controlling the human through cameras by just telling it what<br>
to do."<br>
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Human labor will, Douglas predicted, primarily be valued upon how well<br>
we can do physical work that AI cannot, like so many Taskrabbits for<br>
the algorithmic powers that be — but luckily, we make "fantastic<br>
robots" to that end.<br>
"That's a shocking, shocking world," he concluded.<br>
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The AI revolution is going to bring unbelievable change to human society.<br>
BillK<br>
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