Microsoft’s Future of Work is an Uncanny Valley

Benjamin Lupton
Benjamin Lupton’s Blog
1 min readMar 16, 2023

The presentation is devoid of concern about inserting a ministerial technology between human relationships.

Written and verbal languages are technologies that individuals still ultimately control, as they evolve within us, unlike copilot which due to corporate, national, and empire interest exclusively evolves within the elite.

Some parts of the presentation seem deliberately provocative to gradually and subconsciously inoculate us to this ministerial interlacing of every aspect of our lives and with copilot, between our lives; trying to sell us that this is merely another step alike those preceding along the long march of the humanities, and not a radical deviation from individual divinity towards individual subjugation.

Hopefully society recognises that the parent using AI for relating with their family, ought to receive the same disdain as an executive using a secretary for the same. That the empire wanting to train its models on everything of yours of the personal and professional is about the anticompetitive monopolisation of empire and not about the empowering competition of sovereignty. That the whole presentation had as much respect for humanity, as the ethics team vocalising concern while glazing off into a teleprompter being the face of a faceless regime, an appendage of empire.

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