Jonathan V. Last

The idea that, well, AI will just replace the entire middle class and there's nothing to do about it.

I don't understand that because if we were headed towards something like that, it would seem to me that in a functioning democracy,

But people would simply vote to say, no, we're not going to allow that.

You can't have AI automation doing these, these, these, these and these tasks.

And the way you do that is you create ways of which relying on that creates legal liabilities for corporations.

And it's all pretty achievable.

And we ought to be doing it.

And it seems insane now.

to be sitting back and just being, well, I don't know, they're creating God.

And then, you know, once they have Dr. Manhattan, we can't stop.

Yes, yes, you can stop them.

Altman is not that far from Agent Smith when he is talking to Neo in the Matrix and saying that humanity is a virus.

Remember, he's like, oh, you people are gross and I don't like to touch you.

I mean, that's how he treats his sister.

Yeah.

The whole thing is insane.

And I think there is probably some space for a Democrat to...

really demonize these companies and run on a platform of, and by the way, we're going to make these fuckers work for us.

Yeah, it's worse than it looks from afar, I think.

At least to me, it struck me as worse than I expected it to be.