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Originally Posted by CroFlames
That is a legitimate concern. Once AI actually takes off, the natural course is that machines will self-improve at a faster rate than humans can. As time goes on, that rate will rise exponentially thereby making humans pretty useless in the majority of jobs. A learning computer can do a better job than a human can.
In this thread it is driving a car. But artificial intelligence will have the power to take over all sorts of other jobs.
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This concern has been raised since automation has existed and feared to diminish human usefulness. The tech will not create and maintain itself, maybe some day but for the foreseeable future not at all. There were some predictions that computers would put millions permanently out of work.