Thinking about how in the early versions of the Aladdin story, the genie -

the powerful entity that Aladdin and the Chinese Magician used to carry out their tasks, that acted in accordance with their instructions and had no self-motivation -

is not only an excellent metaphor for the kind of behavior that people want from AI

but was referred to textually as "the slave of the ring"

Very -explicitly- as a slave.

People who endorse the use of AI as a human replacement aren't looking for workers.

They're looking for slaves.

Yes, I am explicitly referring to the pre-Disney conception of the story.

Which, tracing the throughline, has some -really- uncomfortable implications for the Will Smith version that would have made that movie untenable without Robin Williams' remake of the character; Smith is basically doing a remake of Williams more than the origi....

Wait -Guy Ritchie- directed it?

Huh. I guess it is a kind of heist movie.

Y'ever read the 1001 Nights? There's some good shit in there that Disney's not got their grubby little mouse paws into.

Also there are -incredible- levels of recursion; you have frame tales within frame tales and stories within stories

Anyway, if you wanna run with this thought line, it's pretty easy to make the case that 'ai' has no place in a democracy from the angle that work without recompense or choice is antithetical to the rights that democracies are supposed to engage with and facilitate.