I’ve been thinking about something that feels like a paradox with AI . Companies are rapidly adopting AI to automate jobs. The goal seems obvious: reduce labor costs, increase efficiency, and let AI manage more tasks. But this creates a question I can’t stop thinking about. If AI replaces a large portion of the workforce , then a lot of people will lose their income. And if people don’t have income, they won’t be able to buy products or services. But companies rely on people buying things . So if companies automate everything and remove most human jobs, who becomes the customer? The whole economy works because of a loop: people work → people earn money → people spend money → companies make profit → companies hire people. If AI breaks the " people earn money " part, the loop collapses. So what is the long-term plan here? Some possibilities people talk about are things like universal basic income, new types of jobs created by AI, or a completely different economic model. But it still feels like something society hasn’t fully figured out yet. Am I missing something, or is this a real long-term problem with mass AI automation? submitted by /u/IcyBottle1517
Originally posted by u/IcyBottle1517 on r/ArtificialInteligence