What thought do you want them to put into it? If I’m making AI, how can I have anything to do with some newscaster being replaced? Am I supposed to not do it just so we can keep this job that’s not needed?
No, OTHERS should be giving thought to it, not the same people working hard at replacing biological jobs with technology. My point was that I don't see any groups giving much thought to it. There should be planning for the world that is coming on fast vs. flying be the seat of the pants without thinking through the ramifications of what we are doing here.
As for eviction notices being automated, I don’t see the problem there either. My landlord right now will physically take a paper eviction notice to my door if I don’t pay the rent. Does it matter if it’s delivered in my email. Either way I pay the rent or leave so nothing changes there.
Right. But again, applying some
empathy, I- a stranger- would at least feel some care about what happens to you... especially if it becomes many thousands or millions of "yous" getting such notices without replacement income opportunities to solve "your" problem... that could eventually- or simultaneously- be my problem too.
Just like where you work if they stop paying you, are you still coming to work? I suspect the answer for most people is no. Why would I expect anything different from where I live?
You shouldn't. But if they stop paying me right now, there's still plenty of places that need my skills. On the other hand, if A.I. gobbles up such work, there's as little as no place that needs my skills. We can be heartless and blame the human fool for not evolving their skills to be in demand in something else that still needs biological talent... but as that opportunity thins, there may be few such places... or ability to keep evolving new skills fast enough to compete for a shrinking pool of biological-need jobs.
I think people have unnecessary fear from automation and technology. It’s like people losing their minds over electric vehicles, but it’s not that big of a deal. People lost their minds when the automobile came out.
If I'm "people" I wouldn't call it fear... just proactive strategic thinking. Much of the masses depend upon jobs and don't have easy access to, nor necessarily the easy ability to quickly retrain themselves to be valuable at something else. When big numbers see their jobs lost, they don't just slot in somewhere else immediately. Sometimes there's no "somewhere else" left.
Again, this is empathy. As industries are impacted by A.I. replacing biological talent, the biological talent still has biological needs. Solutions to that problem need to be worked out BEFORE we crash into a world where A.I. gains accelerating ground in
many industries all at the same time. Or we can just care nothing about our fellow man and celebrate our technological genius, while living under some bridges and decaying away.
