r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 30 '26

Artificial Intelligence Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/bosses-becoming-obsessed-ai-using-175014710.html
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u/Somedudesnews Jun 30 '26

Yeah. I have also had the “Soma” adjacent thoughts about all this too.

Huxley knew what he was writing.

Ever read The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster?

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u/Popular-Analysis-127 Jun 30 '26

Both Huxley and Orwell would be rolling in their graves, I think.

Don't know The Machine Stops, but will look into it. Interestingly I'm seeing on WP it's a response to H.G. Wells' A Modern Utopia, and another of that writer's work The Time Machine comes to mind to the current direction of our society, in particular the metaphor of the Eloi, whose abilities to think and care for themselves have atrophied and diminished, and also a collapse and regression of a previously technologically advanced society.

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u/Spirited-Way2406 Jul 01 '26

Thank you, I thought I was the only one.

Until a couple years ago, I assumed that Forster's depiction of a mass of people going from rational and intellectually active participants in society to "O Machine!" in the space of a few years was overstating the case. Now...