https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
Exactly this. OP, this is basically where this book goes - AI management that directs humans around as automata.
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#22Maybe I write a bot that answers fivverr requests at the lowest price possible. We can all race to the bottom.
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#23Do you work for Peter Thiel and are you tasked with validating his wet dream? This seems like the inevitable outcome of our current trajectory for a significant portion of society. All the blather about AI utopia and a workless UBI system supported by the boundless productivity advances ushered in by AI-everything simply has no historically basis. History's realistic interpretation points more to this outcome. Coinci…
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#26The industry is calling it "human-in-the-loop" for now but it's basically going in the direction OP hints at.
The difference I'm curious about is agents being the primary caller, and humans becoming an explicit dependency in an autonomous loop rather than a human-in-the-loop system.
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#27https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
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#30How remarkable to think that humans would be happy to dehumanize each other at least in language, before anything else at the promise of 'optimising' for something... whatever it is... it could be the 200 year futuristic axe at this point.