A common narrative about our AI-powered future is one of abundance – robots will do most of the laborious manual labor, AI will take over our cognitive work, and we will all end up being poets and painters living happily on universal basic income. And that’s not a joke – there are plenty of people we know who believe that this is exactly the future we will have once AGI is achieved. Some even talk about a new renaissance (let’s forget for a moment that one of the reasons the Renaissance happened was that a third of Europe’s population was dead due to the plague). Well, turns out Meta (one of the companies which aims to get us to AGI – just look at Zuck’s 6,500 word AI manifesto) has different plans for the very people who are at the forefront of all of this:
Should tech workers supercharged by AI be able to take more time off? Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, said he doesn’t think so. […] “I hope that what we do with our extra time is do even more and cooler stuff for the users who use our products every day,” Bosworth said. “We got billions of people using our products every day. I get an extra hour. You know what I do with it? I put it into that.”
