Blackadder legend Stephen Fry reckons the nine to five lifestyle is one big con and work isn’t a “natural condition of humanity”
Stephen Fry has welcomed the rise of bots and claimed humans are not supposed to work.
The actor and TV host believes that we’ve been conned into toiling with nine to five labour as life has evolved. Stephen, 67, said: “We’re going to have to re-examine what work means over the next decade because of AI and so on. And this idea that jobs will be taken and there will be a large percentage now of the population where the mixture of robots and AI will be taking over the manual and indeed the white collar work.
“My point is that human beings have evolved over millions of years and we weren’t evolved to work. Work isn’t a natural condition of humanity in the sense of nine to five.”
The Blackadder star said humans are “hunter gatherers” who essentially want to feed themselves and said “the big mistake we made was to stop and settle”. He told the Life’s A Beach podcast that alpha males then got castles and became aristocrats and people became forced to work for them.
Stephen added: “The people who laboured in the fields had just enough calories to keep them labouring in fields – and this idea of work slowly developed. This idea that you develop more and more money, the middle classes grew and grew, get on a train, go to work. This is not what we were created for, animals don’t do that. You know, there isn’t anything holy about work.
“You have to remember, whatever you see from AI Now, it’s never going to be this primitive again. So don’t judge anything you see now and go, ‘Oh, I saw it do that, it wasn’t very impressive.’ Well of course it wasn’t. AI Now is the equivalent of a gigantic mobile phone.”
It comes after William Shatner revealed he is planning to live forever by creating a hologram-style avatar of himself. The ABBA-style hologram will chat to his loved ones after he dies.
The Star Trek legend, 94, has signed up to a programme run by AI firm StoryFile that lets customers “preserve” their lives, stories and wisdom to pass on to future generations.
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