I know the whole “white collar workers are cooked” is currently a meme but are we looking at the impacts of AI wrongly? Looking on a 20 year plus view, I don’t subscribe to the de-professionalisation narrative, outside of tech, which will hugely be disrupted. Doctors, lawyers, accountants etc are not going anywhere soon, if for no other reason than the fact that regulation will see to it and most companies are abysmally slow adopters. But on a 20 year view is it not perhaps the case that AI is the great leveller? It actually facilitates economic democratisation and redistributes capital and wealth away from the billionaires and shareholders. Therefore, perhaps it isn‘t workers that should be worried, but corporations? Does AI not actually signal the beginning of the end for the traditional corporation if humans are empowered with the tools? The marginal costs of this stuff are only going to fall as infrastructure scales and competition rises. A person (or a small group) with many agents would be more efficient than a large monopolistic entity. What would the purpose be of a large “entity”, how will it compete with individuals and billions of agents? (Sure some entities will need to exist, but on this view they’d most likely be government owned - transport, utilities, healthcare and other natural monopolies). Beginning with tech companies, are we looking at the end of them and the traditional corporate model? submitted by /u/Rascalwill
Originally posted by u/Rascalwill on r/ArtificialInteligence
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