On the #future of #BeingHuman:
“The argument begins with one danger: the premature closure of the human. Modern civilisation has largely recognised human value through tasks, roles, credentials, wages, outputs, productivity, employability and economic contribution. The #labourunit was never the human. It was a reduction of the human into an externally instructed and measurable unit of prescribed value.
#Artificialintelligence exposes that reduction because it automates much of what the labour economy had already formalised as instruction, workflow, symbol, metric, classification and output. The crisis is not that human value disappears. The crisis is that the inherited grammar through which human value has been recognised can no longer carry the human.
The next danger is that the collapse of labour-unit value does not liberate the human. It may move the human from one commodity form to another: from #labourcommodity to #behaviouralcommodity. The old economy extracted labour. The emerging machine economy risks extracting behaviour, attention, emotion, preference, gesture, intimacy, vulnerability, relation and #becoming.”











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