It wasn't a smart tweet, but having recently run down the rabbit hole of Kripke and modal logic, a discourse on power that is more sophisticated than mere 20th

It wasn't a smart tweet, but having recently run down the rabbit hole of Kripke and modal logic, a discourse on power that is more sophisticated than mere 20th century criticism seems as close as anything to a philosophical emergency right now. If I hire an outsourced team, then mediate my interactions with them using slack and email, does it matter whether there is a person on either side of that conversation? Managing people means to extract value from their work, and a bot that watches a line (like the rate of paperclip production), and uses various tools to increase that line by supervising worker agents - this can absolutely be done by an expert system. Managing essentially reduces to solving optimization problems to sustain an equillibrium among factors and their tensions that produces value, so it's not intrinsically creative, but it's smart and it scales well. If you were working for a machine or not, how would you know, and if you were indifferent to that fact, does it make the machine intelligent? It's sort of a Black Mirror version of a Turing test thought experiment. Does it matter whether the leash on your collar is held by a person or a robot? Anyway, I'm still less worried about super intelligent programs than I am about the low cunning of mediocre minds.