The hope (the pitch? the grift?) was that AI would make us more productive. New tools would enter the world and, by automating a stack of previously laborious tasks, would liberate human energy for higher purposes. It's a fantasy that still circulates. It's in every VC blog post about GPT copilots. It's in the marketing copy of a hundred startups that promise to take tasks off your plate.
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