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I swear I remember hearing about a science fiction story where the "self-driving" cars actually just had people hidden in them.
scifi dystopia future where a race of gnomes are created to sit inside things and play mechanical turk
I watched this sketch comedy show in Iceland as a kid, where every week they had a section called "the men behind the curtains". It was just people hidden away inside ATMs, vending machines etc. pretending it was a machine doing the work.
Slow march to 40k servitors not looking far fetched. Why develop an AI/algorithm when you have no moral conscience and can just make a human do it.
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Snowpiercer?No, there are no cars in that, although I get the connection.
This was a short story or novel I think, but I haven't read it just heard about it.
Makes sense, I was just joking :)
Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil