npub15s…e8xgu on Nostr: To the people who say: "AI is just another technology, and technology has always ...
To the people who say:
"AI is just another technology, and technology has always displaced some jobs, but always opens more opportunities than it ends. So there's no reason to be worried about AI."
I think you're missing something very important -
for all tech revolutions in the past, the new tech automated some limited set of tasks. But that didn't touch the thousand other tasks in the world that still only humans could do.
What happens when AI leaves no task that a human can do more cheaply? That is a core promise of AGI. Employing human labor becomes financial suicide for all businesses. Only industries that employ humans specifically because they're human will be left.
We need to build technology that gives the powers of AI to individuals, or we'll lose our economic agency and become passive UBI recipients. Give individuals the means of production!
"AI is just another technology, and technology has always displaced some jobs, but always opens more opportunities than it ends. So there's no reason to be worried about AI."
I think you're missing something very important -
for all tech revolutions in the past, the new tech automated some limited set of tasks. But that didn't touch the thousand other tasks in the world that still only humans could do.
What happens when AI leaves no task that a human can do more cheaply? That is a core promise of AGI. Employing human labor becomes financial suicide for all businesses. Only industries that employ humans specifically because they're human will be left.
We need to build technology that gives the powers of AI to individuals, or we'll lose our economic agency and become passive UBI recipients. Give individuals the means of production!