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Summary Of The Most Human By Brian Christian

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It has been a major concern that someday the machines will take over the jobs that humans do nowadays. In the book, “The Most Human Human” by Brian Christian, he goes on a journey to discover what makes humans so unique. In the fourth chapter, he goes more into depth on the worries that humans have of machines taking over all the jobs available for us, but approaches it from a different point of view. He says, “You can almost think of the rise of AI not as an infection or cancer of the job market- the disease is efficiency- but as a kind of maggot therapy: it consumes only those portions that are no longer human, restoring us to health.” (Christian 88). By this he means that, like car industries, jobs that were once made for humans become so

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