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"We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next
successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be.
We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that
we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily
adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation;
we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all
sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating,
self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has
been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall
find ourselves the inferior race. "

Samuel Butler - letter to The Press, NZ, 1863

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

Try also his later little book :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
"I regret that reviewers have in some cases been inclined to
treat the chapters on Machines as an attempt to reduce Mr
Darwin's theory to an absurdity. Nothing could be further
from my intention, and few things would be more distasteful
to me than any attempt to laugh at Mr Darwin."

. . .

ALREADY a grasp of things to come even THAT long ago.

Now, stories of draw-downs at MicroSoft and other tech
companies. Not the drudges, but the white-collar biz
and programming staff. The AI's - as many, even Musk,
predicted, are making human skill less and less relevant.

FIRST stage is letting fewer humans do more work.
SECOND stage - why do we need any expensive humans
at ALL anymore ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14785245/bloodbath-tearing-middle-class-US-economy.html

Note there is NO PLAN from any govt I'm aware of
as to WHAT TO DO with all the obsolete humans.

Soylent Green on a cracker anyone .. ?

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