SS: This article explores the profound societal shifts AI could bring, focusing on its potential to dismantle traditional labor structures and create a post-job society. By replacing menial, survival-driven work with automation, AI could free humans to pursue creative, scientific, and philosophical endeavors. The piece also addresses key concerns, such as fears of obsolescence, arguing that while jobs may vanish, meaningful human activities and connections will persist. It emphasizes the need to seize this moment to reduce inequality, foster innovation, and build a society focused on purpose beyond labor.
Discussions and critique are encouraged: How can we design policies and frameworks to ensure AI enhances human creativity and connection rather than deepening inequalities or eroding social stability? What roles do governments, industries, and communities need to play in shaping this future? Join the conversation!
TypicalHaikuResponse on
Is this the part where we placate the masses prior to make the transition to destitution easier?
Upbeat-Cloud1714 on
You guys have this all wrong. Just because big Sam Altie boy said it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. For every “billionaire” that’s trying to take jobs away and reduce labor costs, there’s probably 3-5 more individuals out there working to reverse that exact effect. Myself included. Ai is not coming for anyone’s jobs, it’s literally just a new nail gun to the software and marketing industry. Stop with the overhype. It doesn’t natively produce good results and people like myself who truly know how to take advantage of it would never in a million years teach a corporation our tactics so they can get rid of us.
Also, to be perfectly clear Ai is no where near the point of it taking peoples jobs. It requires pretty significant intelligence to actually work with it. It’s like sticking the dumbest person in the room with someone holding a PhD and then telling that dumb person to instruct the guy with a PhD on what to do. The results will not be good just because of a knoweldge base in the middle. Instructions have to be knowledgeable, concise, and clear for the Ai to do anything. All of this hype is super laughable and damaging to the market who builds anything in tech because they’re leading the market to believe these services are getting cheaper when they aren’t. Just having Ai doesn’t mean I should sell software for less because I have a new tool. Houses certainly didn’t get cheaper with the invention of the nail gun. They just built more houses in less time. The market needs to get a grip already and ground back with reality.
Jonatan83 on
Garbage article written by AI bros who desperately want this to be true. Thinking LLM’s will lead to actual AGI is like thinking you can get to the moon with a tall enough ladder.
KarIPilkington on
It’s a nice idea, but I question whether the masses will pursue creative, scientific or other useful endeavours even in the unlikely event of AI being used for good (won’t happen). In reality I believe it will continue at least for a decade or so as nothing more than a tool to keep us divided, blurring the lines between truth and lies so they’re almost indistinguishable, driving us further into a post-truth world and nothing much else will change except whatever fallout comes from that. Probably a civil war or two. Hopefully it leads to rapidly decreasing internet usage as people realise that nothing they see on it can be trusted anymore, but that’s wishful thinking.
DanceDelievery on
Only if the ressources of every country is owned by the people of that country not by a handful of superrich and their companies.
So the us produced that much amount of food, electricity, technology, medicine? Great! Distribute it to the people who are the rightful owners!
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SS: This article explores the profound societal shifts AI could bring, focusing on its potential to dismantle traditional labor structures and create a post-job society. By replacing menial, survival-driven work with automation, AI could free humans to pursue creative, scientific, and philosophical endeavors. The piece also addresses key concerns, such as fears of obsolescence, arguing that while jobs may vanish, meaningful human activities and connections will persist. It emphasizes the need to seize this moment to reduce inequality, foster innovation, and build a society focused on purpose beyond labor.
Discussions and critique are encouraged: How can we design policies and frameworks to ensure AI enhances human creativity and connection rather than deepening inequalities or eroding social stability? What roles do governments, industries, and communities need to play in shaping this future? Join the conversation!
Is this the part where we placate the masses prior to make the transition to destitution easier?
You guys have this all wrong. Just because big Sam Altie boy said it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen. For every “billionaire” that’s trying to take jobs away and reduce labor costs, there’s probably 3-5 more individuals out there working to reverse that exact effect. Myself included. Ai is not coming for anyone’s jobs, it’s literally just a new nail gun to the software and marketing industry. Stop with the overhype. It doesn’t natively produce good results and people like myself who truly know how to take advantage of it would never in a million years teach a corporation our tactics so they can get rid of us.
Also, to be perfectly clear Ai is no where near the point of it taking peoples jobs. It requires pretty significant intelligence to actually work with it. It’s like sticking the dumbest person in the room with someone holding a PhD and then telling that dumb person to instruct the guy with a PhD on what to do. The results will not be good just because of a knoweldge base in the middle. Instructions have to be knowledgeable, concise, and clear for the Ai to do anything. All of this hype is super laughable and damaging to the market who builds anything in tech because they’re leading the market to believe these services are getting cheaper when they aren’t. Just having Ai doesn’t mean I should sell software for less because I have a new tool. Houses certainly didn’t get cheaper with the invention of the nail gun. They just built more houses in less time. The market needs to get a grip already and ground back with reality.
Garbage article written by AI bros who desperately want this to be true. Thinking LLM’s will lead to actual AGI is like thinking you can get to the moon with a tall enough ladder.
It’s a nice idea, but I question whether the masses will pursue creative, scientific or other useful endeavours even in the unlikely event of AI being used for good (won’t happen). In reality I believe it will continue at least for a decade or so as nothing more than a tool to keep us divided, blurring the lines between truth and lies so they’re almost indistinguishable, driving us further into a post-truth world and nothing much else will change except whatever fallout comes from that. Probably a civil war or two. Hopefully it leads to rapidly decreasing internet usage as people realise that nothing they see on it can be trusted anymore, but that’s wishful thinking.
Only if the ressources of every country is owned by the people of that country not by a handful of superrich and their companies.
So the us produced that much amount of food, electricity, technology, medicine? Great! Distribute it to the people who are the rightful owners!