On AI & Jobs: Most jobs will be human + AI. And, yes, it's also true that AI will do some jobs alone. Throughout history, it’s been a net positive for society to have machines do more of the work, and give humans the ability to think, create, etc. AI can give *more* humans that bandwidth.
Or one could do what this government plans to do - kill off the population instead and keep all the money for themselves.
What does 'net positive' even mean in this case? Generally mechanisation has proven far too complex to analyse like simple pros and cons. I would have absolutely zero confidence saying that the mechanisation of textile industry, for instance, has been a 'net positive'.
Oh no. These types of posts don't go well on Bluesky. The users here once rallied against semantic tagging because they thought it was "the plagiarism machine" that "set California on fire by drinking all the water". Best of luck.
I agree, but historically transitions are pretty painful. How can we expect that to happen when *gestures wildly at everything*?
Staying still doesn’t spare us pain—it just delays it and prevents us from navigating away from the most significant obstacles. We've also learned from previous transitions. Some examples: we need to distribute technology more evenly, use it on big societal issues quicker, and red teams are good.
Hmm, that’s too linear a perspective for me. AI enables a small group to go totally fucking crazy and quite possibly unleash something that will kill the rest of us. Like Elon.
the thing this misses is scale and speed I have little doubt we’ll eventually catch up, but no economy has ever made the order of magnitude per year to grow vs the pace that’s possible (-20M+ in a few years: customer support, truckers, ride share, food delivery…) we need to take that seriously
Could not agree more.
When AI can assist in error correction+solution conceptualization (sales, process, engineering) such benefits will be great. Tried to introduce simple ideas & systems to auto sales, but the GMs & principals simply are obtuse & lose time, customers, money. AI would speedily replace these cementheads