Comment by nprateem
3 days ago
I think it's pretty clear that the problems with AI are:
1. Overhyped. Try writing a blog post that doesn't sound like it. Everyone is sick of reading it now.
2. Affecting the wrong people. It used to be the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. But now a lot of the middle class will get poorer
3. Severely damages the work hard way out. Competition will become brutal if there's almost no barrier to entry. This will drive down profit, affect hiring and will become a conveyor belt of people trying to win the business lottery. This will make moats even more essential.
4. The obvious theft of creative works which destroys dreams and livelihoods.
No wonder the younger generation are against it. Those of us in the middle are still just hoping at least we can get through somehow. At least we have hope.
Also 5. Not what the world needs.
Automation can free humanity from toil, but automation in the hand of billionaires that does the work of white collar, educated people in a period of economic and cultural turmoil, with no plan to employ them all than hoping UBI descends from heaven unto the world, is the recipe for societal disaster on a massive scale.