AI is moving fast!
The arrival of a technology that might do to the workforce what an asteroid did to the dinosaurs…There’s no shortage of ideas about what to do if AI hollows out large swaths of work: universal basic income, benefits that don’t depend on employers, lifelong retraining, a shorter workweek. Reuters/Ipsos poll: 71% surveyed worried AI will put too many people out of work permanently
This is a technology that can digest a hundred reports before you’ve finished your coffee, draft and analyze documents faster than teams of paralegals, compose music indistinguishable from the genius of a pop star or a Juilliard grad, code—really code, not just copy-paste—with the precision of a top engineer. Tasks that once required skill, judgment, and years of training are now being executed, relentlessly and indifferently, by software that learns as it goes.
Not sure what the future holds for us but I’m certain the homeless numbers will grow significantly with eroding human cognitive and social skills, increasing economic inequality through mass job displacement, and posing existential risks to humanity. Time to join/create the commune.
Just my thoughts.
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