BlueHym t1_j9ty0yy wrote
While quality of life improvement is never a bad thing, the problem is the transition, as well as whom the benefit goes to. For Ai, what happens to the current existing workforce when more and more jobs get replaced by it?
Right now AI in the foreseeable future is on the cusp of being able to do so, and yet, many organizations, governments have really yet to address nor start any meaningful discussion on the transition as well as those who are left out of a profession thanks to AI. You can always say "oh, just go find another job", but when an increasing number of jobs will be replaced by AI, sooner or later you'll have a lot of folks who just won't be able to find themselves any means to support oneself. Universal basic income? Still on the drawing board, but not even close on being discussed as an actual concept.
What happens in a future where AI is working on all sectors on nearly all fronts?
What do the folks who are pushed out of their profession do by then? They don't have means to sustain themselves with the current economic standards. And those that employ AI and the growth there would be by then only for a select few.
Illuminase t1_j9u2w3l wrote
If our society wasn't structured such that people have to work to live, machines automating away menial jobs would be universally heralded as a good thing. It's a shame we aren't ready for technology like this.
Ok_Math1334 t1_j9vhogr wrote
Every country will need to make drastic changes to their economic systems, some more than others. To ensure that people have their basic needs met in the future, and so that we benefit together from improvements to science and technology.
Whether that transition happens in a matter that is smooth, efficient and ethical, or slow, chaotic and brutal, will depend on how competent the leaders of tomorrow will be.
jejcicodjntbyifid3 t1_j9vpj7e wrote
I feel like the more likely scenario is wars are going to happen, civil or otherwise, and nuclear\bio weapons are going to wipe us out instead
..if we don't destroy our water and food supply before then..
Sadly. It's a shame because automation and AI could be a golden age..
But the more likely scenario is that the elite will hoard the golden age like a bunch of greedy dragons
planko13 t1_j9u5urr wrote
Job elimination/ replacements are fine and have always been a part of history, the thing that is new will be the rate of job eliminations.
When this rate exceeds attrition you ruin people’s lives (locally this has proven true). I fear this coming change will be many orders faster than attrition
Meinfailure t1_j9utdlj wrote
Perhaps the system must change then
jejcicodjntbyifid3 t1_j9vpon7 wrote
It's already happened to a great degree
There's speculation that the reason why Trump and conservatives were let into power so much was because of their misplaced frustrations with automation coming from eg Amazon...
UnarmedSnail t1_j9ublm0 wrote
No government is likely to survive explaining what full industrial automation means to a society and then actually trying to implement it.
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