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by UncleEntity
1378 days ago
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> seeds of AI that will terraform society and rapidly displace human labor over the coming decades Replace AI with any other labor saving technology and your statement becomes just a truism without substance. AI is already displacing human labor, just try to talk to a non-robot when you call a customer service line these days. It’s a selling point to have real humans answering phones anymore. Being fungible with human labor is what people are really talking about not some answering machine with “AI” brains that replaced the old-school answering services. |
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You’re right. And my point is that substitution due to AI will accelerate. That’s where the informational surprise of my original comment lies.
You have a fatal misapprehension about how automation transforms a labor market. Higher productivity of certain kinds of work due to automation pushes labor supply elsewhere, making the “elsewhere” in turn both more competitive/demeaning (think Amazon warehouse workers peeing in bottles at the lower end of the market and Stripe engineers burning out at the upper end) and less remunerative.
The terminal point of this trend is complete human obsolescence, but the displacement along the way is additive, will likely accelerate in the coming decades due to advances in AI, and is especially problematic because there are limits to the elasticity of the labor pool (i.e. its ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions).
I would furthermore predict that governments will be too slow to respond to this and that social upheaval will consequently escalate dramatically.
Come back to this comment in ten years and see how I did.