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+.title = "On Progress and Ignorance",
+.date = @date("2026-06-22T00:00:00"),
+.author = "Alexander Goussas",
+.layout = "post.shtml",
+.draft = false,
+---
+
+Last week at a work meeting a team talked about how they were starting to
+integrate some AI tools in their day to day work and how useful they were. Then,
+they proceeded to present five new team members. Each with their own picture and
+name. Only, none of those were real people, but rather AI agents created by the
+team. Everyone started clapping and I had to exit the meeting before dying of
+cringe.
+
+If this is not dystopic, then I don't know what is.
+
+To me this is equivalent and indistinguishable from marrying a robot, which
+we've seen happen at least a couple times already. And yet, people shame this
+sort of relationship towards artificial intelligence but celebrate the
+aforementioned one.
+
+This speaks to me to a total lack of understanding of the tools we are using.
+Attributing human characteristics to the tools we use, such as giving them
+names, is a common and natural practice. But AI is no different from a hammer,
+and I would not bring my hammer to work and present it as a member of my team,
+much less marry it.
+
+Furthermore, if we lay it down as it is, celebrating the inclusion of five
+artificial team members is the same as celebrating the need not to hire five
+real human beings to do the same job. Of course, doing the latter is more
+expensive, but the companies doing this do not have money problems.
+
+There are many people focusing on doing more, producing more, having more; in
+order to satiate an insatiable need, to fill and endless void, and never
+stopping to ask whether what they're throwing their life at will have any
+meaning at all when they go back to dust. Which it will not.
+
+And I cannot help but wonder, when did everything go wrong? How long do we need
+to keep moving in this direction before we realize it's a dead end? If the times
+before were better it was not because quality of life was, in material terms,
+better, but because we had better values. The only value we have now is money,
+which really is just a piece of paper.
+
+Marx thought that capitalism is doomed to failure, that it eventually will
+collapse under its own weight because resources are limited and there is only so
+much human beings with dignity are willing to withstand before revolting. I hope
+he was right.