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Originally Posted by AFireInside
Oh don't get me wrong I wasn't really pointing the finger at you, just a general statement I guess.
Yeah I just don't agree. In the case of art, if any one can create it with zero skill it has no value on top of it being mostly stolen from talented artists. As far as other industries, displacing people doesn't bring any good into the world. They move to industries less affected by AI and drive the value down there. I see a lot of AI as a tool to devalue skills and make money for those at the top.
All the dump trick drivers at Suncor that were automated out of jobs were transferred, but it also eliminated 500 high paying jobs with a low barrier to entry for the next generation and the only benificary is Suncor.
Obviously there are some great things that will come from AI but I see far more bad.
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Seems more like a complaint about corporate capitalism rather than a complaint about AI.
No doubt there will be jobs lost to skills displacement via AI, and there will be new jobs created along with new opportunities for self employment. The biggest concern I have with AI as it relates to unemployment is more just about the speed of it all. The risk is in the near term and about the speed of advancement in skills displacement being much greater than the speed of labor force reskilling and having frictional unemployment become permanent. It could be hard for a lot of people to find their way through to what works next.
Of course, those same people losing their jobs will probably actually end up making use of AI to solve their problems of upskilling and being productive again, while corporates on the other hand will always be looking for the next opportunity to increase profits with improved efficiency.
As GGG pointed out, the problem of AI and the workforce is a problem of wealth distribution. I would say it's more particularly a problem of ownership distribution for the channels through which wealth is generated. At the end of the day, AI is just another set of tools to be used or discarded as needs be, and from a certain business perspective employees are just tools to be treated in the same way. That is less a problem of the tool than it is a problem of the social, economic and legal systems.