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The Journal of Ethics article treats a post-work future as involving games, research, art, care, family time, and other meaningful activities, while arguing that total automation could threaten the value of meaningful work; it does not support the claim that people end up doing only food, art, music, and sex. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: All Play and No Work? AI and Existential Unemployment · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b39c58d72c1b3c67e1d80406085af55f7ed2724bd03ab46d23716eed34af5eb5

I critique Danaher’s ... arguments that we should embrace the total automation of work and retreat to a ‘utopia of games’. ... Even if humans continue to do such work, the mere existence of AI systems would undermine its meaning and value. ... it may well be the case that more common forms of meaningful work would also lose their meaning in the automated world.