03-11-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com

No utopia: experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work

Using AI to create less and better work would benefit society. Getting rid of it altogether would be unproductiveOscar Wilde thought hard work “the refuge” of those with nothing better to do while he envisaged a society of “cultivated leisure” as machines performed the necessary and unpleasant tasks.Karl Marx’s dream was of state-regulated general production that allowed liberated workers to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the eveni
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