[kennywinker]

Agree with a lot said here - but it doesn’t touch on the socio-political consequences of ai. In a capitalist system, wealth concentrates in the hands of the already rich. But ultimately, the rich need everyone else. They need them to do their laundry, clean their mansions, fly their planes. That gives the not rich some small token of power over the rich. With each new job ai is capable of doing, it drains away that power.

Similarly, the state needs people to do the work of state power. People to investigate the citizenry, people to judge and prosecute and process appeals. AI takes away the human from that, allowing massive injustices to be rubber stamped. A small example - RFJ jr couldn’t get a human to write his garbage maha report, so he used AI (https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/rfk-jr-may-hav...). Small examples become bigger examples.

AI is accelerating us towards a techno-fascist oligarchy. That’s why i am skeptical of it. Not because it’s mid at writing unit tests or whatever.