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The article critiques the AI safety debate as naive, arguing that the real danger lies in billionaires using AI to replace human labor, which could lead to the genocide of the underclass.
The article extends the 'dead internet theory' to a 'dead economy theory', arguing that massive AI investments aim at labor replacement at scale, with benchmarks targeting professional roles and the financial models requiring elimination of human cost centers.
A comment highlighting that replacing human workers with AI agents will require far more compute than commonly assumed, as reliable agents need extensive tool use, self-checking, and coordination.