[kevin_b_er]

The purpose of AI, and the entire drive of investment in it, is to eliminate labor costs. There's no other purpose. It is not to advance science or make a better world, it is to make money. That money comes by the expense of the many and the gain of a few. And there will not be new jobs to replace the ones lost. There's no more "learn to code!". They're there to replace all jobs possible, make a more unequal society, and nothing more.

You'd best understand this today.

[Invictus0]

I agree with everything except "there will not be new jobs". There will most definitely be new jobs.

[data-ottawa]

Like what?

AI is cool, but the spoils are going to go to staggeringly few people and in most of the West there are no real safety nets for people to fall on.

If I lost my job tomorrow to AI then any desk job I aim for might be gone in another 2-3 years, before I even finish retraining.

Any content creation is going to be flooded out and most creators don't even make any money even today. It's a marketing role with strong Pareto distributions.

That mainly leaves physical labor and person to person jobs.

I would say great, freedom from labour, except that's not how it works.

[astrange]

> AI is cool, but the spoils are going to go to staggeringly few people

They appear to mainly be going to Nvidia investors, which is basically anyone with a retirement account.

[hatthew]

Can you define what you mean by "AI" here? I strongly disagree with your sentiment, but perhaps you and me have different ideas of what counts as AI.

[astrange]

Automation improvements increase employment/wages by increasing productivity. Conversely not doing it reduces them, because you become less competitive vs other countries that are doing it.