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Wiener: Automated Machines Are Economic Slave Labour
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Norbert Wiener, the American mathematician who pioneered cybernetics, wrote in his 1948 book 'Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine' that automated machines are the economic equivalent of slave labour. The quote foreshadows human labor displacement fears, which have resurfaced with generative AI.
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