My major complaint about "AI" is that the label is being used for a very wide variety of applications which makes it difficult for me to understand how it is being proposed to be used in specific instances.
So these companies want to use AI to get rid of workers and increase profits. They want to get rid of teachers so they can make money off of schools. My question is, if we quit employing people, who is going to pay for the products made by the companies that are using AI? I get the idea of a changing economy, the idea of technology improving production and all that. But capitalism requires consumers. Consumers require money. Most of us get money from employment. At what point do these companies lay off so many workers that they end up eating themselves?
And as always - you can bet their kids won't go to school with AI tutors. It'll be all field trips, class sizes of 12 kids max, enriching activities, sitting on lawns in fair weather doing a leisurely perusal of Plato's Republic or Henry IV Part One.
I can't help but think that this will inevitably turn out to be a FAFO situation for these Very Smart People. Sure, automate away the jobs of 60-70% of the global population, but unless they have a plan for how to deal with the resulting socio-political backlash by the newly immiserated, they're looking at a possible French Revolution Redux.
My major complaint about "AI" is that the label is being used for a very wide variety of applications which makes it difficult for me to understand how it is being proposed to be used in specific instances.
So these companies want to use AI to get rid of workers and increase profits. They want to get rid of teachers so they can make money off of schools. My question is, if we quit employing people, who is going to pay for the products made by the companies that are using AI? I get the idea of a changing economy, the idea of technology improving production and all that. But capitalism requires consumers. Consumers require money. Most of us get money from employment. At what point do these companies lay off so many workers that they end up eating themselves?
And as always - you can bet their kids won't go to school with AI tutors. It'll be all field trips, class sizes of 12 kids max, enriching activities, sitting on lawns in fair weather doing a leisurely perusal of Plato's Republic or Henry IV Part One.
I can't help but think that this will inevitably turn out to be a FAFO situation for these Very Smart People. Sure, automate away the jobs of 60-70% of the global population, but unless they have a plan for how to deal with the resulting socio-political backlash by the newly immiserated, they're looking at a possible French Revolution Redux.