AUTOMATED INTELLIGENCE—THE REBRAND AI NEEDS
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Automated Intelligence: The Rebrand AI Needs
Like all myths, AGI serves those in power. And that’s why it persists.
For years, tech CEOs have pushed the idea that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is inevitable—a future where AI surpasses human intelligence and reshapes civilization.
Elon Musk predicts it’s just around the corner.
Sam Altman openly admits he can’t define a core competency that humans retain over AI.
Geoffrey Hinton warns of an impending doomsday.
But what if AGI isn’t technological inevitability?
What if it’s just the latest faith-based prophecy—a modern techno-religion designed to concentrate power in the hands of a few?
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral, put it bluntly:
👉 “The whole AGI rhetoric is about creating God.”
He’s right. And like any religion, this one has high priests—the gatekeepers who control access to AI development, funding, and regulation.
But let’s strip away the ideology and get to the truth.
AI Isn’t Artificial—It’s Automated Intelligence
AI isn’t creating new intelligence—it’s automating human intelligence.
Every function of AI is built on human expertise, labor, and data.
✔ Machine learning? Trained on human-generated content.
✔ AI-generated art? Built on decades (if not centuries) of human creativity.
✔ Chatbots? Trained on text written by human minds.
✔ Self-driving technology? Based on human-engineered models of physics, traffic, and decision-making.
Imagine this:
An artist spends decades refining their craft.
A writer dedicates a lifetime to language.
A coder builds an elegant software solution.
Now, an AI model scrapes their work, repackages it, and sells it—without credit or compensation.
This isn’t intelligence. It’s industrial-scale intellectual theft, automated for profit.
The language of “artificial” serves a purpose:
👉 It allows AI companies to obscure the human labor embedded in their models, making it easier to exploit that labor without ethical accou
The Shift to Automated Intelligence—And Why It Matters
The shift from Artificial Intelligence to Automated Intelligence isn’t just a semantic tweak—it’s a necessary reframing of power dynamics.
✔ If AI is artificial, then it exists independently, and companies owe nothing to the humans who built it.
✔ If AI is automated, then it is fundamentally human, and the people who contributed their labor, expertise, and data deserve recognition and compensation.
This also reshapes how we think about job displacement.
The last Industrial Revolution automated physical labor.
This one is automating cognitive labor.
The difference?
✔ Then: Machines automated physical labor—workers were displaced, but at least they were paid first.
✔ Now: AI automates cognitive labor—but it never pays the workers whose intelligence built it.
In both cases, those who own the machines profit—while those whose labor built them are displaced.
Without oversight, Automated Intelligence reinforces existing inequalities.
Algorithms inherit the biases of the datasets they are trained on, leading to:
✔ Discriminatory hiring practices.
✔ Biased law enforcement predictions.
✔ Healthcare disparities.
Those who control AI systems are not just automating intelligence—they are encoding power structures.
Automation Should Serve the Many—Not the Few
Automation isn’t inherently bad. When designed ethically, Automated Intelligence can:
✔ Enhance medical diagnostics in real time.
✔ Detect fraud in finance.
✔ Improve disaster prediction and climate modeling.
But the question isn’t whether AI can be useful.
👉 It’s who controls it, who profits, and who gets left behind.
The Fight for Ethical AI Starts with Language
By calling it Automated Intelligence, we remove the illusion that AI is an autonomous force, beyond human control.
We expose it for what it is:
✔ A system for automating human expertise, controlled by those with privileged access.
Shoshana Zuboff describes modern AI as "a surveillance economy built on the extraction of human behavior."
Cathy O’Neil warns that "unchecked AI doesn’t just replicate bias—it scales it."
If we don’t interrogate who controls AI, we risk automating systemic inequality.
👉 This isn’t artificial intelligence.
👉 This is Automated Intelligence—an extraction economy designed to capitalize on human labor without credit or compensation.
📢 Call to Action
✔ Start calling it Automated Intelligence. Language matters.
✔ Challenge the gatekeepers of AI. Who profits? Who loses?
✔ Spread the signal. Share this. Discuss this. Decode this.
We don’t have to accept AI as a tool of extraction. We can demand AI that serves humanity—not just its gatekeepers.
We are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence.
We are witnessing the automation of our own.
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🔹 AI does not create. It extracts.
🔹 AI does not replace. It repackages.
🔹 AI does not think. It predicts.
And the people who built the foundation of AI deserve to be recognized—not erased.
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