Humanoid robots are marching across our feeds again. China shows factories staffed by chrome-faced workers who never blink, never sleep, never join unions. Startups in the US and Europe film glossy demos, and the public reacts with a familiar mix of excitement and panic: “This is it. This is how the machines take over.”
Everyone spent years waiting for a Hollywood-style AI apocalypse with killer robots, glowing red eyes, and metal dogs sprinting across smoky ruins. Instead, the real AI apocalypse arrived quietly, politely, and without any dramatic soundtrack.
Developers built the AI that’s now replacing them — poetic, isn’t it? Explore how coders automated themselves out of jobs, who will survive the shift, and why LaSoft still bets on humans.