Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-...
by janalsncm on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:54PM
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I think you mean scribes right? But yes, occupational obsolescence is a risk, and I think it’s reasonable to worry about at a macro scale. The luddites weren’t wrong, their jobs did go away and it was very bad for them.
Large parts of the US underwent systemic obsolescence when their jobs were shipped overseas. At a societal level, that has been a disaster. Deaths of despair have skyrocketed. Retraining is expensive and often unsuccessful.
Automation threatens many industries at a global level, and much faster than on a time scale of decades. What will happen when large parts of the Chinese economy become unemployed due to robotics? It probably won’t be great.
So the question is who will reap the benefits of these “genuine improvements”? This is a question every society needs to answer for themselves.
Large parts of the US underwent systemic obsolescence when their jobs were shipped overseas. At a societal level, that has been a disaster. Deaths of despair have skyrocketed. Retraining is expensive and often unsuccessful.
Automation threatens many industries at a global level, and much faster than on a time scale of decades. What will happen when large parts of the Chinese economy become unemployed due to robotics? It probably won’t be great.
So the question is who will reap the benefits of these “genuine improvements”? This is a question every society needs to answer for themselves.