alt Hacker NewsBut its normal, and good, that technologal progress creates, and destroys some jobs. Imagin a cheap, 100% reliable, self driving car would be released. Death from Traffic incidence fall by orders of magnitude
Would you argue it didnt benefit humanity, because taxi/bus drivers are nolonger required
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buellerbueller • today at 7:53 PM
the thing with all this innovation is that it seems to be inextricably linked to rent extraction, so where is this "cheap" you speak of?
I'm actually a AI optimist. I think it'd be great to have everybody getting around in self driving vehicles.
If all that AI brought resulted in just taxi/bus drivers being phased out of their jobs in a thoughtful way, then that would be more manageable at the society level. But we're talking about almost all sectors of the economy.
If the magnitude of changes that OpenAI and Athropic believe will be delivered with increasingly powerful AI (and robotics) comes in a time frame that significantly worsens a large proportion of people's lives, this is a different situation. Can super powerful AI not be developed in a way that minimizes such disruption?