Of his coinage useless class for the eventual majority of humankind, all those whom AI will make economically obsolete, Harari says he chose this very upsetting term…to highlight the fact that we are talking about useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from a moral viewpoint….I’m aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around…from the beginning of the [first] industrial revolution and they never came true so far. It’s basically the boy who cried wolf. But in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf actually comes, and I think that
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