Christian Martin > Quotes

“A Chapter Is Over The NFL player forced into retirement loses more than a paycheck. Gone is his identity, status, rituals, brotherhood, and a reason to train. The retiree at sixty-seven may experience the same thing. One day she is useful, needed, scheduled, and respected. The next day she has unlimited free time and no obvious role. The college graduate feels it too. So does the parent whose children leave home, and the 29-year-old ending a 10-year relationship that they thought would last forever.”
― Christian Martin, Maybe We're Not F*cked After All: AI Isn't Replacing Humans, It's Replacing the Robots We've Been Forced to Become

“What the hell am I supposed to do now? You kind of suspected this day would come but not quite this soon. It’s one thing to read a book like this and philosophize about an AI-driven utopia. It’s fun to sit around the dinner table and fantasize about a world where intelligence is virtually free, humanoid robots build our houses, and we all have infinite time off to take the kids camping. It’s an entirely different reality when your paycheck just evaporated, and your mortgage is due in a month. How do you survive the gap between today and the AI-abundant future? And who are you in a world where what you do is no longer part of your identity?”
― Christian Martin, Maybe We're Not F*cked After All: AI Isn't Replacing Humans, It's Replacing the Robots We've Been Forced to Become

“Technology can be used to strip mine a planet or create a work of art. We don’t fear the washing machine will corrupt us, or the dishwasher will leave us purposeless... at least we don’t anymore. But that’s what we’re doing today with tomorrow’s technology. We’re assigning a moral value to increased possibility instead of holding bad actors accountable for acting bad. The technology is a scapegoat.”
― Christian Martin, Maybe We're Not F*cked After All: AI Isn't Replacing Humans, It's Replacing the Robots We've Been Forced to Become

“technological progress is coming for you and your job. Someone or something is going to replace you. Whether or not you’re involved is up to you.”
― Christian Martin, Maybe We're Not F*cked After All: AI Isn't Replacing Humans, It's Replacing the Robots We've Been Forced to Become