Per Michael Tolkien's writing the dialog to Robert Altman's movie The Player (1992):
(A movie studio executive who believes a screen writer has been harassing him with threatening postcards has just murdered the screenwriter the previous night. The executive arrives late at a mid-morning studio meeting as other executives argue about the lavishness of writers' fees)
Movie studio boss: Griffin, you're here! We were just discussing the significance of writing. Maybe you have something to add?
Executive: I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.
(Assistant hands the executive another postcard)
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Re AI chat:
High school students who are illiterate now use AI chat to orchestrate the concoction of course papers they can't understand, then instructors use AI chat to grade the work. The grads apply for jobs and get selected by AI chat, then interviewed by managers using AI chat. The lucky hires are woken up by their IOs and transported to an office at an unknown destination by autonomous cars. Their work is to follow scripts emitted by AI chat to apply AI chat to guide refinement of processes, further feeding LLMs. Once returned to the home cubicle after the shift, the specialist consumes the latest cartoons and sexts with an AI companion. The IO sounds the alarm and it's time to sleep.
If the MCP guys can just cut out the middle men, I think we've got something here!
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The threat of the new machines is not AGI overlords who will exterminate an optional humanity. The threat is an old one that's been proven over millennia of history: the conversion of human beings into slaves.
(A movie studio executive who believes a screen writer has been harassing him with threatening postcards has just murdered the screenwriter the previous night. The executive arrives late at a mid-morning studio meeting as other executives argue about the lavishness of writers' fees)
Movie studio boss: Griffin, you're here! We were just discussing the significance of writing. Maybe you have something to add?
Executive: I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.
(Assistant hands the executive another postcard)
—
Re AI chat:
High school students who are illiterate now use AI chat to orchestrate the concoction of course papers they can't understand, then instructors use AI chat to grade the work. The grads apply for jobs and get selected by AI chat, then interviewed by managers using AI chat. The lucky hires are woken up by their IOs and transported to an office at an unknown destination by autonomous cars. Their work is to follow scripts emitted by AI chat to apply AI chat to guide refinement of processes, further feeding LLMs. Once returned to the home cubicle after the shift, the specialist consumes the latest cartoons and sexts with an AI companion. The IO sounds the alarm and it's time to sleep.
If the MCP guys can just cut out the middle men, I think we've got something here!
—
The threat of the new machines is not AGI overlords who will exterminate an optional humanity. The threat is an old one that's been proven over millennia of history: the conversion of human beings into slaves.