Comment by SilverElfin

No. Not at all. This type of reaction to a new technology is probably different from all the previous ones. There wasn’t talk of a “permanent underclass” for other revolutions. But with AI, we will probably see a lot of labor just become unnecessary in many parts of society, not just one industry.

We will need fewer humans, basically. But we already have the humans and there are many of them, and they’ll be more jobless than before. There’s fear with that. And that’s not irrational. But I think it’s misdirected. You aren’t going to stop AI. People should instead focus on breaking up monopolies, taxing the largest corporations (soon: Anthropic) more than smaller ones, and maybe UBI for citizens or something like that.