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August 2026

Maggie Appleton · 18 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Always-on AI agents might put a dent in the burden of unpaid household mental labour, the way washing machines and dishwashers did.

    Their wordsI am genuinely hopeful agents might put a dent in this problem, in the same way washing machines and dishwashers did.

  2. Our reading

    There is plenty of work that humans are needed for and robots cannot do, but not enough ability or willingness to pay people to do it.

    Their wordsThere is no shortage of physical, social, educational, and cultural work that we need humans to do for one another that cannot, in any wild imagining of agent capabilities, be done by our current or near-future robots. We just can't figure out how we would pay people enough to do these jobs.

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