{"slug": "ai-building-exoskeletons", "title": "AI Building Exoskeletons", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "It has been suggested that technology’s evolution had two possible pathways from the mid-2000s: *either Exoskeletons, or AI.*\n\nThis 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.\n\nOn the other hand, **AI** here symbolically represents automation in general. It especially represents the offloading of cognitive work and decision-making.…\n\nThe post [AI Building Exoskeletons](https://johnoestmannmusic.com/ai-building-exoskeletons/) appeared first on [John Oestmann Music](https://johnoestmannmusic.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-building-exoskeletons", "canonical_source": "https://johnoestmannmusic.com/ai-building-exoskeletons/", "published_at": "2026-08-21 22:24:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 22:43:46.266913+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "robotics"], "entities": ["John Oestmann Music"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-building-exoskeletons", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-building-exoskeletons.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-building-exoskeletons.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-building-exoskeletons.jsonld"}}