RickRussell_CA

The biggest risk I see is Idiocracy. Like, the movie.

Business workers become afraid to do or propose anything without AI signoff. Retail & service workers are told to do what the AI says, the way the AI says to do it, or get fired.

Technology innovator Marshall Brain (RIP) wrote a book in the early 2000s about an AI called “Manna” designed to replace fast food managers:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201204080050/https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

The AI just talks in your ear all day: “Empty one bag of fries into the fryer. You have 6.5 minutes, switch to the sandwich station. Make one Big Burger: grab one patty from the 1/4 pound bin and place it on the griddle… … The fries are ready, turn around and lift them into the drain hopper…”

All day, every day, exactly 8 hours plus mandatory breaks, employees on autopilot listening on ear buds.

I am shocked. Shocked, I say!

Well not that shocked.

The “Even Stevens” Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell were both writers & performers for Craig Kilborn, and before that they were both writers on Dana Carvey’s short-lived sketch comedy show that had the fatal luck of being scheduled against a new comedy show called Home Improvement.

I have my issues with Brooks’ article, but come on. Appearing in the same place/event as Jeffrey Epstein, by itself, means nothing.

They have multiple photographs of Brooks at the event and Epstein isn’t in a single one. This is a nothingburger.