I recently watched a video from Kurzgesagt about Germany's birth rate issue ( https://youtu.be/n-gYFcVx-8Y for reference ) and it's a bit doom and gloom so I wonder if AI came just in time to assist.
Could AI solve the birth rate crisis?
byu/ThanosDi inFuturology
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What do you mean by assist? As in take over caring for the elderly?
Because that is really the only reason why decreasing population matters.
Lol, what “crisis?” Its only a crisis because capitalism requires a constant supply of meat thrown at the machine.
Not unless you’re talking about ultra advanced AI surrogate bots that gestate and raise babies while the two parents both work.
Since AI and robotics are goring to obsolete a lot of jobs, don’t we want a lower birth rate?!?
What are you talking about. AI is not some be all and end all solution to everything all of a sudden…
Its not just AI but theres a lot of untapped potential for conventional automation. AI and robotics will certainly decrease the demand for a lot of professions. And no, blue collar jobs are not safe either.
I honestly dont understand the question. How would AI assist? Like, what would the process be? What function would AI perform that leads to more humans?
I feel these types of posts, as absurd as they are, are trying desperately to convince people AI is a net positive to humanity. So far, it’s a tech bro’s grift. It’s a “new way” to do exactly what we have been doing (just fine I might add) but is costing humanity more in literal money and with the dumbing down of an already tech illiterate people.
I’ll say it again, “as of now, it’s a grift!”
There is no birth rate crisis. Decreasing birth rates aren’t a crisis unless you have a pyramid scheme that requires infinite growth to sustain itself and call it “social security” or “pension fund”
In the short term I would imagine the AI will make things even worse. Declining birth rate is tied to younger generations not being able to afford the same standard of living as their parents from the same amount of work. AI replacing people in their jobs will not help this. I fear it might put even more pressure on the remaining workforce in the form of more taxes to sustain the already overstretched welfare state, at least in Europe. The way things are going currently people in their 50s and 60s now might be the last ones benefiting from something called retirement.
You said it in a way that it implies AI-assisted reproduction or some other way that can fix nirth rate crisis.