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AI Building Exoskeletons

John Oestmann Music's blog post 'AI Building Exoskeletons' contrasts two technological pathways from the mid-2000s: exoskeletons, which augment human actions and keep humans at the center of decision-making, and AI, which symbolizes automation and the offloading of cognitive work. The post suggests that these represent different approaches to technology's evolution.

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It has been suggested that technology’s evolution had two possible pathways from the mid-2000s: either Exoskeletons, or AI.

This is a huge oversimplification, but the point it tries to illustrate is this: Exoskeletons augment the actions that people already do. They allow people to walk over tough terrain, lift heavier things, be generally agile at a super-human level. Exoskeletons essentially represent tech, less as automation, and more as augmentation. It keeps the human at the center of decision-making.

On the other hand, AI here symbolically represents automation in general. It especially represents the off of cognitive work and decision-making.…

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