This chapter calls into question the driving desire behind AI, from both its proponents and its critics. That desire has been expressed as “taking away the tasks we hate.” But who designates contemptible tasks? And what does our contempt for this work say about how we regard the people who do it? To answer this question, I discuss how a history of raced and gendered labor, combined with industrialization and the “Ghost Work” of the digital era, have produced an Ideology of Replacement that promises the elimination of inconvenience without any concept of the human cost of convenience. I then discuss how this ideology does not stop at what we currently deem “menial,” and is quickly proliferating through professions we once regarded as “respectable.” This proliferation is enabled by a metaeugenic worship of intelligence and a belief that most people do not possess enough of it. Our collective belief in our own inadequacy is required to sustain the AI project. A new digital divide is forming between those that have the privilege to opt-out of artificial services and those that are forced into the labor that sustains them.