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Automated Intelligence©: Why This Trajectory Is Ontologically Evil

BLB 09, March 2026

The Automated Intelligence© industry is rapidly concentrating power, weakening labor, intensifying ecological risk, and feeding a manufactured nihilism that makes it harder for our species to act in its own survival interest—even as it delivers real productivity gains. 1. Labor: Undermining the Human Survival Substrate From an evolutionary view, human…