A.I. All The Way Down
What do we do when robots do everything?
📡 On my Radar
You wake up to Siri’s alarm on your iPhone. It knows you have two meetings this morning and you take too long to get ready, so it’s waking you up 10 minutes earlier.
An Alexa AI-powered Nespresso has made your cup of coffee, and a Google Home speaker reads out the news as you brush your teeth (your toothbrush buzzes after it thinks you’ve brushed thoroughly enough).
At work, an AI agent has already drafted all of your emails for the day. Google’s Beam AI persona joins meetings on your behalf. Because it has access to all of your emails and zoom calls, it already knows what you’d say anyway.
AI agents create your videos, “record” your podcasts, and reply to the text messages your friends’ AI agents have sent.
Workday done, your car drives you back home. Your hands never touch the wheel.
That was a tough day of doing nothing, so you decide to treat yourself and have your AI-powered kitchen prepare a gourmet meal, made from groceries delivered by an AI cubby robot, all while your Roomba vacuums the floor and you watch a custom, Hollywood-quality movie your personal AI agent crafted just for you.
As your head hits the pillow, your nightstand clock sets itself for the next morning. It already knows when you need to wake up, and cools your bed down, setting the AC to the temperature you want and closes the bedroom window shades.
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This is the future those making AI want for the world. AI has real power for good. But without any consideration for how humanity scales alongside it, what do we do when labor is completely commoditized? What happens to the value of work? And if no one’s working … who’s buying all the products these companies sell?
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