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The Ghost in the Machine is Not Who You Think: Human Labor and the Paradox of Automation with Mary L Gray

This Anthro Life

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Is Artificial Intelligence a Good Idea?

The idea that we would know what we're going to do next before we've done it is a profound paradox. We make a good guess based on having often never met a person before, like you and i haven't met before to day. And those are really the two features s that make up so much of how we interact with each other in service economies. The things we do as people, what makes us human is, yes, sure, we do most things, most of the time same way. But when we need to make a change in what we do next, a i is the last thing you want in place because it cannot predict. It cannot think like a human.

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