Duke Dirty Work

“But my job gives me purpose.” Then keep doing it. Nobody’s stopping you. What AI removes isn’t your ability to do things. It’s your obligation to do them. You’ll still be able to write, paint, code, cook, build, teach. You just won’t be forced to. If the only thing that kept you doing it was the threat of being homeless, it wasn’t purpose. It was a hostage negotiation.

The most underrated thing about AI: It doesn’t care where you went to school. It doesn’t care about your accent, your degree, your zip code or who your parents know. It answers the kid in a village exactly like it answers the Stanford grad. No institution in history has ever done that.

“AI can’t replace a real teacher.” Great teachers? Probably not yet. But most kids never get a great teacher. They get 30 classmates, 45 minutes and a curriculum written in 2009. AI doesn’t have to beat the best teacher alive. It just has to show up for the kids who never had one.

If you’re actively trying to stop AI development, you’re my enemy and an enemy of humanity. I consider what you’re doing a direct attack on humanity’s future. Every disease that could have been cured, every life that could have been saved, every person who could have escaped poverty. Every opportunity lost is a direct consequence of your actions, and those lives are on your shoulders. You’re willing to sacrifice all of that because you’re terrified of progress. I have absolutely zero tolerance for this. Your movement deserves to be politically defeated, intellectually dismantled, and remembered as one of the greatest obstacles to human progress in history.