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Of course it will make it unequal - it already has and will continue to. It has minted more billionaires while killing millions of jobs, increasing inflation while the same billionaire class proposing cuts to social welfare. They are prioritizing building data centers over housing , drinking water and environment.
We have 70-80 year old “leaders” running countries with no vision other than land grab, stoking racist ideologies, promoting divisive messaging and again, just catering to billionaire class. In my view, inequality getting worse is best case scenario …this will lead to societal collapse. There is no competent political leadership to influence anything or the will. And good luck counting on tech bro CEOs to do anything
Stoking racist ideologies. 🙄
AI alone will disrupt white collar, AI with robotics may disrupt many blue collar/service professions. Unless strong societal protections are established we will revert towards a more feudalistic structure - ultra wealthy and then everyone else. Universal Basic Income (UBI) while potentially necessary will further solidify this model.
the ruling class will never just hand us UBI
AI as it stands today meaning Major LLM providers like Anthropic and OpenAi?
More unequal. It’ll widen the gap between the haves and have nots. Right now it only benefits billionaires and CEOs who need a justification to layoff their workforce. It’ll also deskill and devalue our laborz
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Its already ruining jobs and the earth so it will continue to do so...
There will always be differences in effort so there will be differences in outcomes.
Agreed but that is a different problem. Ai is taking away opportunity to make effort.
Like it or not there are people who can only do jobs that aren't worth much either by choice or ability and they are usually the ones that need the most social help and we need this.
One step up from there are a lot of desk jobs, measuring jobs, some creative jobs that required more ability and/or effort that often benefited from the human touch, like customer service, that can be replaced by Ai but nobody has ever said it is done better, maybe not even cheaper. If a job doesn't take much skill and anyone can be plugged into it an trained, you are always at risk, now more so than ever.
Programming is a higher level highly skilled job that benefits from the human understanding but can actually be augmented by Ai but still needs human design and oversight. It sounds like it's already being misused by the lazy to replace themselves. I like Ai to check my syntax, grammar, and spelling for basic tasks, I don't ask it to do my work for me but the predictive text and phone keyboards tend to mess up what I am trying to type or say. It's a tool not a replacement for thinking.
A lot of jobs exist digitally in sort of a fake world set up in finance and computing where people can do things without moving. That already removes much from the human experience. Some hope we will have more time for being creative and human without jobs but not having a need to do something does not make people happy. The entire human experience has been about survival and now basic needs are met and we create that purpose in that fake online world where many of us work but if we lost it, it wouldn't necessarily be bad. Now Ai can manage much of that and that sounds terrible to anyone who considers what that means.
For people who still exist and work in the real world, they will be managed by Ai middle management, dispatched, told what to do, measured, by a computer somewhere and probably also replaced by a robot at some point. All our resources and electricity to go towards making products cheaper and selling robots and Ai bots to people who can't afford any of it because they don't have jobs. It will start at the bottom and work it's way up but Ai is the first disruption to really reach so far up the food chain while decimating the market for itself.
What we’ve seen so far makes me think that if we let it this will become down right distopian…
Y'all have said quiet part out loud. A.I. is the Dark Side. Evil cloaked friendly face. Tech Bros will be our demise. Sarah Connor for President!
Everything has its advantages and disadvantages; it all depends on how you look at it. Artificial intelligence is no exception
AI isn’t the problem. The billionaires pioneering for it to replace humans are the problem.
Exactly!
Surely this can't be a serious question
I'm actually not worried about "ultimately". I am, however, very concerned about the transitional impacts which will come hard and fast. Harder and faster than many people realize.