[over_bridge]

I pray that society can move past the desire to protect jobs and embrace the ability to kill them. Imagine checking the news and hearing that through AI and automation, we'd eliminated another 3% of unwanted jobs and those people were free to enjoy other pursuits.

The growing jobless rate would be a cause for celebration. People who automate industries would be heroes instead of being cursed by the poor who are now out on the street.

Our values got messed up somewhere. (I'm not from a work obsessed culture though, so I expect I will be told why work is actually the greatest and noblest thing on Earth, and I will roll my eyes)

[Centigonal]

> Imagine checking the news and hearing that through AI and automation, we'd eliminated another 3% of unwanted jobs and those people were free to enjoy other pursuits.

We don't have any social safety net, so today those 3% can't enjoy other pursuits - they have to scrounge around for a new job. Even if we did, The primary path to security, freedom, and prestige in our society is through industry. We have to change this before automation can stop being a dirty word.

[gorjusborg]

> We don't have any social safety net, so today those 3% can't enjoy other pursuits

Exactly. Its not that anyone wants a job, it is that the rules of the society they live in require it.

Heck, I can't even go to the doctor without having a job that provides health 'insurance'.

I'd be for letting AI have my job and doing what I want. I doubt the billionaire who runs the AI will see that it happens that way though.