Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near “perfect” dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.
Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain
The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.
Silinde@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IMO, and more relevant than ever.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I couldn’t remember it either. I described it to deepseek in order to find it. Ironically it mistakenly thought “the short story you’re thinking of is almost certainly “Nanny” by Cory Doctorow. It’s part of his collection Radicalized (published in 2019)”.
If you find it, let me know. I think I might have been conned by deepseek.