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[No BBC=Anger]

See the expanse. Earth might need universal basic income.

Either UBI or a greatly expanded authoritarian police state. I'm guessing some leaders would love option 2 and push for that but going by sheer numbers the out of work population would overrun it.

 

[Days like these...]

It's gonna decimate most white-collar work. And unlike previous technological advancements in the workplace, there will be nowhere for the unemployed masses to go. But it will take society/politicians at least a solid decade to implement programs to address this, so people will be fighting over entry-level retail and construction and healthcare jobs just to survive.

Ain't nobody (especially not office workers) going to be fighting over construction jobs too labor intensive and we Mexicans got those jobs on lock anyway.

 

[DrFigs]

It would make my job easier, but probably trivial. so i'd be paid a lot less.
I think we're going to see a ton of unemployment that are not gonna be made up. Probably an increase in menial work, but a decrease in wages all around.

 

[Mr1999]

Where I work we depend on labor, and we already have said workers to fill those roles, but the problem lies with everyone else's roles, many of which can be "delegated" to someone else. I work for a union, and I don't know how longer they will keep certain jobs on life support. From my experience with companies over the years they tend to operate like a bloc, when one business makes a move, others usually follow. Even if AI turns out to be nothing, just talking about it can trigger a chain reaction. They will use AI as a scape goat no matter what happens. You just have to look around and ask yourself, are x, y, z person bringing any value, can we make without said person? Its fucked up but that's how its looked at.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Hopefully new kinds of work will fill the gap... so instead of "the same volume/kinds of things are produced, but with less human labor" it could be "there are now entirely new possibilities in every direction to start building, opened up by the tech and its transformations, so hiring and work will continue, because we've automated one world as we suddenly have the ability to create a wholly new one on top."

A bit simplistic, but something in that direction is what I hope for.

I put zero faith in "UBI" etc being a way to save us. People need to actually be involved in the world with their labor (and involved in shared ways, eg all the labor & compromise that makes up a family), and you'll see an even darker dystopia if everyone becomes atomistic individuals paid by the state to live but without control.

 

[Laptop1991]

It will probably be both good and bad depending what it's used for and only after quite a while of fixing it and tweaking the software will it work to an acceptable level, i expect some chaos at first.

 

[GeekyDad]

I still think AI is an incorrect term for the technology. But considering the fast dependency we're offloading onto it, I could see the possibility of some crazy shit in the not-so-distant future.

 

[Paasei]

Still have no idea what I'd use it for in my personal environment. Only as a glorified search engine or image creator just for the fun of it. I know I'm also pretty clueless about the whole thing and just don't know what the whole fuss is about.
Seems like a replacement hype for that metaverse shit.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

AI is thrown about too much. Everything has AI slapped on the box these days.

A few years ago it was something I thought would be decades away. Obviously it has become way more useful and popular since ChatGPT.

It's scary but impressive what it can do with image/video/audio generation. I'm not worried about it too much right now but it's only going to get more powerful. I don't know when we'll have AGI but it feels like it's moving fast.

It will probably lead to more job losses but I don't think it's gonna go rogue and kill off humans. Another worrying thing is governments using it to track and spy on people more easily. I'm glad I don't use social media platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. (yes technically NeoGaf is a social media) and take many steps to improve my privacy and security online. My government is desperate to break E2EE, even more heavily control the internet, and get access to everyone's data. They say will use AI to detect threats but that is a wide net to cast. Say the wrong thing these days and if someone is offended then you're fucked. Won't be long before the old social score idea comes back (like that episode of Black Mirror "Nosedive"). AI will only make that much easier to implement.

Everything you do online will be monitored with AI. CCTV will use facial recognition and match it to your online identity. We're already going down the slope and have been for a long time but AI is gonna make it so much worse.

 

[Sophist]

people forget that ai is computers running on electricity, you plug off the power cord and your ai is gone. nothing to fear.