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Comment by taurath

8 hours ago

Oh boy I can’t wait for the future they hope for, when I and everyone else will be out of work and they own the economy.

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jeltz  7 hours ago

If that happens they will be broken too as nobody had money to buy their services.

  • everyday7732  6 hours ago

    You're assuming a human economy, where raw resources and land are owned by humans and industry requires an human input and labour.

    If these things are not true, then humans will not have the purchasing power, and AI driven organisations will be extracting resources, buying land and manufacturing products (probably yet more data centers) for other AI driven organisations, with labour performed by robots. Humans are pushed out of the market as they struggle to compete for the same basic resources.

    • avianlyric  5 hours ago

      What use does an AI and robots have for all those resources?

      Most of our economy is powered by human consumption, humans making things to sell to other humans, that then either transform it further and sell it to other humans, or consume it directly. I don’t think an AI needs to buy millions of iPhones a year, or consume millions of metric tons of grain each year, or buy luxury cars so they can show them off to their AI friends.

      At best an AI might use all those resources to build out further compute and expand its own capabilities. But at that point nobody should be worrying about competing in the labour market, they should be worried about AI making our planet unliveable for carbon based life.

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    • root_axis  3 hours ago

      What is an LLM going to do with food, clothes, diapers etc? The idea doesn't really make sense.

camillomiller  7 hours ago

Violent uprisings can’t be controlled

  • wmanley  4 hours ago

    Violent uprisings are controlled all the time all over the world. It’s rare for a violent uprising to successfully achieve its goals. Governments are designed specifically to survive violent uprisings, even from within their own ranks or armed forces.

    One of my worries about AI is that it will improve the rich and powerful’s ability to survive a violent uprising or allow them to insulate themselves from the populace with less need for numerous human bodyguards. This in combination with a concentration of wealth/income generation could lead to a Russia-style elimination of personal freedoms.

    Essentially it could allow the rich and powerful to come increasingly untethered to the needs of their fellow man. No longer needing a middle class of lawyers, architects and managers for them to achieve their goals. And having the capability to suppress the general populace with less need for expensive private security.