AI Job Displacement

sorry but you don't have enough economic significance to the AI for it to serve youit will serve a lot of other humans who do have the means, but not you... in fact it will be the "means of production" to enrich them furtheryou on the other hand might get laid off, and not be able to afford to get on the AI Trainbut, at least AI will still generate some cool stories and videos for you on demand :)

You are thinking too small.The goal of AI is NOT to be a tool. It's to replace human labor completely.This means 100% of economic value goes to capital, instead of labor. Which means anyone that doesn't have sufficient capital to live off the returns just starves to death.To avoid that outcome requires a complete rethinking of our economic system. And I don't think our institutions are remotely prepared for that, assuming the people runnign them care at all.

AI innovation cannot be stopped. But the assumption that we just have to hand over all the world's wealth to whoever controls the AI is far from a given. In a world where human labor accounts for a vanishingly small portion of what it takes to support an individual, why should we structure the economy around pretending that 100% employment is still necessary, or even desirable?Capitalism gets uglier and uglier the more the supply of human labor outmatches the demand. In a world run by ma

The problem is the jobs you imagine people moving to won't materialize because AI will do those too. In the past, efficiency increases lead to the realization of new modes of transactions becoming economically viable. The people made obsolete moved to entirely new jobs because the tech was narrowly applicable. AGI is fully general, there is no space of jobs that humans could do but AGI cannot do. This is the end game for human labor. Society is not ready, and probably never will be.

I don't think so. I think in the future we will be living pretty similarly but instead of just doing the work manually we'll be using AI to be more efficient. Just like what the original post on reddit was referring to.He was not fired or anything, his bosses just told him "now you need to do 10 times the work you were doing before because you got the AI". Although in the past it was okay for him to do 1/10th of the work, now with the AI, that has become unacceptable.

If all productive human labor is replaced by AI we have larger problems than where we'll find the money.

It’ll get worse. You forgot to throw in unrest due to mass workforce displacement from ai / bots

My main worry is that a small set of capital owners will vastly benefit in a runaway AI scenario at the cost of human laborers (including service workers). If a few companies control essentially infinite intelligence, they could capture all the income currently paid to workers, while the vast majority of workers are left obsolete.

The big problem I see with AI is that it undermines redistribution mechanisms in a novel and dangerous way; despite industrialization, human labor was always needed to actually do anything with capital, and even people born in poverty could do work to get their share of the growing economical pie.AI kinda breaks this; there is a real risk that human labor is going to become almost worthless this century, and this might mean that the common man ends up worse off despite no

If AI replaces workers, we wouldn't have an economy. It would probably be the end of capitalism. Or at least the end of the consumerism driven capitalism that we have known since the end of WWII. I don't know what would follow but it probably wouldn't be pretty. Honestly at that point, I could see the end of humanity. If truly we get to the point that machine intelligence is more capable and people are entirely marginalized then it's game over. At best a few human specimen en