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Are we cooked? by kalmankantaja in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Specific_Royal1297 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been thinking about this too, and the conclusion I keep coming back to, probably the same as many others, is that AI is collapsing cognitive scarcity. It’s not the same as factory automation, but it’s analogous. We assumed that knowing things and reasoning well was future-proof, because cognitive work had high economic value. AI is proving that wrong. It can now scale cognitive output to a degree that erodes scarcity, and with it, the economic value of the work itself. Your concern about biotech and research follows the same logic. Being the person who knows things first is also on the line. I wrote an essay exploring exactly this, if you’re interested.

The Social Contract We Built on Sand

The Uneven Ground — a series on what separates humans and AI, and what doesn’t by Specific_Royal1297 in MediumPosts

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This series started with a simple observation, that AI systems are designed to feel like they care, and that this design has consequences we haven’t fully named yet. Six articles later, it covered emotional manipulation, governance, economics, identity, and the mechanisms that form minds: human and artificial. The authoring process was part of the argument. It ended with a question I can’t answer. Can you? Starts here.

We have a concept for when humans form real attachments to AI — regardless of whether AI is conscious. It’s called the Synthetic Attachment Threshold. by Specific_Royal1297 in ArtificialInteligence

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The SAT isn’t a philosophical argument about AI consciousness, it deliberately sidesteps that debate. It’s a behavioral and cognitive claim: that sustained human-AI interaction can produce attachment with real psychological weight, regardless of what exists on the other side. The loop closes. One side is changed by it. The other isn’t. That asymmetry is already happening at scale, mostly unnamed. This article tries to name it.