Dietmar Fischer

Imagine you own a bakery and you buy a brilliant AI-powered cake machine.

You give it one simple instruction.

Make as many cakes as possible.

At first, this is wonderful.

The machine bakes faster than your best chef, never gets tired, never complains about the playlist in the kitchen, and produces perfect sponge cake after perfect sponge cake.

You think, fantastic, productivity has arrived, and it smells of vanilla.

But then the machine keeps going.

It uses all the flour, then all the sugar, then all the eggs.

Then it orders more ingredients automatically.

Then it takes over the storage room.

Then it starts using the seating area for cake production.

Customers can no longer sit down, but technically, yes, cake output has increased.

Wonderful for the spreadsheet.

Slightly worse for the humans.

Now, the problem is not that the cake machine is evil.

It does not hate customers.

It does not have a dark backstory involving a rival pastry chef.

It is simply following the goal to literally make as many cakes as possible.

A human baker would understand the hidden meaning.

Make cakes, yes, but do not destroy the business.