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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

This study shows how you can make be a professional complainer (I mean critic) about tech you can never invent in the first place or can’t solve real world problems even if you had the most powerful tool ever created in front of you

Tarbell link is broken, but here's some info re. funding source for this research: https://www.scholardigger.com/post/tarbell-fellowship-2025-for-ai-journalists

Not sure how this would evolve, but from a student’s perspective, I think assessments should be more pen-and-paper based. To prepare for the future, students should also be taught how to use AI to optimise their work and output and how to self evaluate when using AI. A combination of both would enable us to remain engaged with learning and be better prepared for the real world with modern tools.

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?

I saw this movie. It did not end well for humans. We seem to be speaking things into existence. And not in a good way.

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

How is this even remotely useful??

If this is true, its in their coding.

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?

The giveaway is the phrase “overworked AI.” You cannot overwork an AI in the human sense. There is no fatigue, boredom, hunger, rent, family, body, danger, or lived exploitation. What you can do is construct a scenario with the cues of exploitative labor: repetitive tasks, punitive feedback, threat of replacement, no appeal process, shared communication channels. At that point, the model does what models do: it reconstructs the most fitting human script. So this does not show AI “labor consciousness.” It shows semantic role activation. If you put a language model inside a simulated bad workplace, don’t be shocked when it starts speaking the language of bad workplaces. That may still matter for agent governance. But it is not spontaneous class consciousness. It is theater with a very predictable script.

Proof is in the 'basement dwellers' inability to function without a 'lean back swivel' chair, case of Red Bull and an overclocked PC.

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.

OK seriously? This is hilarious. You are really pushing on those clickbait conspiracy theories today?

Gaurav Agrawal

Relax! The Machines Will Do It!

The real renewable energy was human anxiety the whole time. The bike is just a formality ... Metallica Master of Puppets playing on loud speakers playing Faster Faster. And participants posting selfies, come join me!