Researchers warn of "gradual disempowerment" from AI

CBS News reports on "gradual disempowerment": as AI agents take over more tasks, humans could become mere "approvers" while skills, creativity and cognition erode. Robocurve CEO Jay Chooi ranks it alongside engineered pandemics and cyberattacks as a "civilization-scale problem" requiring a whole-of-society response, and says it is not a distant concern.

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