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Armağan Tekin, Thank you. I really appreciate that. Maybe it comes from staying curious about technology for a long time and from finding the most interesting questions where it meets the real world.

Wasn´t this a plot in Blar Mirror?

Pascal BORNET The future challenge is not technological displacement alone. It is redefining human contribution, meaning, and participation in economies increasingly shaped by intelligent systems.

Straight outta black mirror. Unsettling and scary.

Pascal BORNET As automation expands, human value will shift toward judgment, creativity, relationships, and meaning. The future economy must reward contribution beyond repetitive productivity alone.

Pascal BORNET As machines optimize efficiency, human relevance will increasingly come from empathy, judgment, creativity, and the ability to create meaning beyond measurable output.

I'm talking about it often with my personal trainer and a possible new business, in the very near future 😅🤣

Matrix

We treat corporate productivity like the ultimate goal, pretending that automating every layer of human thought creates a utopia rather than widespread isolation. I spoke with a product design lead who spent six months automating his team's creative pipeline, only to realize his designers felt completely detached from the final product and lost their sense of ownership. They didn't lose their salaries, but they lost their professional identity. Stripping the friction and execution out of a career kills the fulfillment that comes with mastery. If we outsource all processing and creation to a network of servers, what actually separates our unique value from a software program?

The matrix is real.

Pascal BORNET As a word of caution. Let’s not forget who is whose tool. AI that is wisely managed, in full symbiosis with humans, will never lead to such a situation.

And I worry even more! If AI takes over the work and no money- how they all GET FOOD !?!?!? Free food from Malls ??? This slop is walking through the Linked for some months but no one asked that simple question: HOW they going to survive before 2036 and beyond ? To spin class to keep the servers alive? And... even this concept is not so absurd since its kind of sport and any sport is good for us. But hey- again: how we will get that FOOD to be able to spin that class ??? Here's "alternative salary" patent by Microsoft using body activity data is already on the table: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606 If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/ai-how-will-we-be-fed

Hey Pascal, your thoughts on purpose and dignity in work really hit home. How do you think AI can best support our creativity and sense of community?

Pascal BORNET Welcome inside the matrix ! Blue or red pill ?

i believe design choices matter here Pascal

"I used to worry AI would take our jobs. Now I worry it will make us do cardio for the data centers.” Pascal, this 2036 vision is both hilarious and haunting. We automate everything for efficiency, only to find ourselves running on treadmills to cool the machines that replaced us. It’s the ultimate irony, humans reduced to physical support roles while AI handles the “important” thinking. The deeper point lands hard: if we don’t deliberately design for human meaning, creativity, and judgment, we risk creating a future where we’re busy but purposeless. The best path forward is human-centered AI, using automation to free us for higher-value work, not to eliminate the need for humans entirely. Question for the thread: In this 2036 scenario, would you rather be the one running the treadmill, or the one still fighting to keep meaningful work? What’s one thing we should protect today?

People rarely panic about automation during the first productivity gains. The tension shows up later when career ladders shrink, apprenticeship work disappears, and contribution starts feeling disconnected from economic value across entire functions. Which human capability becomes harder to develop after AI absorbs the beginner stage?

The danger is not only job loss. It is optimizing humans out of contribution while calling it progress 💬

I thought AI slop online couldn't get any worse, proven wrong by this. If there was to be any policy as a priority it should be "responsible usage". The carbon footprint alone of this nonsense video is enough to ban it. And yes I have a great soh, thanks.

Relax! The Machines Will Do It!