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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
These forecasts are a sort of dystopian future where the majority of people will be jobless. Auto manufacturing will decline and be fully automated, driving careers will disappear, agriculture, resource development will be automated. What fields will underpin the economy of the future? How long until tech jobs are taken by AI? I don't like the direction we're going, it will be highly destructive to our society. If 90% of people are directionless wards of the state how don't we descend into violence?
The change of our energy sources and infrastructure is inevitable, but AI everything isn't a positive future for the majority of society.
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Exactly. Unfortunately, the middle class will have to start to get thinned out by automation before we'll be smart enough to see where we're going, which will of course be too late to change direction.