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ACCount37last Monday at 9:24 PM1 replyview on HN

That's what it is: wishful thinking. A lot of people really, really want AI tech to fail - because they don't like the alternative.


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muldvarplast Tuesday at 4:51 AM

Yeah, obviously nobody that actually though about the consequences wants a large part of the population to become unemployed. Even if your job is not threatened by automation, it will be threatened by a lot of people looking for new jobs.

And the kind of automation brought by LLMs is decidely different than automation in the past which almost always created new (usually better) jobs. LLMs won't do this (at least to extent where it would matter) I think. Most people in ten years will have worse jobs (more physically straining, longer hours, less pay) unless there will be a political intervention.