Theres always been displacement as technology advances. that being said folks are right to be concerned with the potential level of displacement from ai and the lack of a social safety net in this country in comparison to the rest of the developed world. the doomsday scenarios of ai taking 50,60, 70, ot even 80% of jobs wont happen in any of our lifetimes but even something like automation of big rigs and putting over 10 million people out of work is enough to cause serious issues across the economy. The only thing i can say is we need the people need leaders in washington that will work for the interest of the people first more than ever. right now you can count on two hands the amount of folks we have in washington that are advocating for their constituents first and foremost. Folks also put too much faith in the words of the tech bros, agi and asi are not coming anytime soon and, altman pivoting from “chatgpt will cure cancer” to " you can make your own porn" is proof of that imo, perhaps i am wrong. also the company i work for is already walking back some ai investments in ai and automation as its causing more issues than its solving and requiring just as much if not more human oversight than when humans directly did tasks ourselves, im pretty sure i am not the only one seeing this. Could that change in the future if these models improve? Sure but i also wonder how much longer investors will finance the tech bros pursuit of agi/asi. they are already several trillion in the hole. My ninion , and perhaps im wrong , but companies that use ai to innovate and grow wil survive and possibly even thrive. Whereas companies that purely use ai to gut payroll and maximize quarterly earnings will likely live to regret it submitted by /u/personofinterest1986
Originally posted by u/personofinterest1986 on r/ArtificialInteligence