It’s not AI. It’s us.<p>We can choose to make it more equal. We can choose to even things, and to work less.<p>It’s us using the AI to do things.<p>Let’s stop pretending like our hands are tied. We can build a better world if we want to. Don’t give me excuses about how everyone else will do something so then you have to do the same.<p>Take responsibility for your own actions.<p>Don’t fire people that you can replace with AI. Instead, re-train them to use AI to make your business better and for everyone to work less.<p>Be creative, be visionary, be disruptive and be compassionate. Care about people over money.<p>Mother Theresa said: “if you want to change the world, go home and love your family”<p>Maybe this time, if you want to change the world, don’t replace people with AI. Do replace their work, but keep the people and find them something more human to work on.
AI will be great for big businesses, alright for small businesses, and catastrophic for many employees. I imagine a gig economy where self employed workers need to leverage ai to be effective, and it becoming exhausting to keep up. I hope I’m wrong
What would be a groundbreaking great leap technology that wouldn't immediately result in articles that say "x will make our society even more unequal"?<p>Viable AR/VR?<p>Fully autonomous vehicles?<p>Fusion power?<p>Edit: I'm confused why this question is garnering all these downvotes. Could anyone please help me understand why this is controversial or disliked?
People have been using AI and machine learning since the beginning of the web. Googles very search has been using ML for years.<p>I argue we have already been using these technologies, they merely got better and more available.
I can't speculate on how AI (which type?) will affect our societies, but to counter balance what is generally said about AI (that it will cause major "disruptions" in jobs and economies), I like what Chomsky has to say about it [1] (In a nutshell, according to him, the dangers of "chatbots" [sic] is not that they will take jobs, but that people will take them seriously)<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/av_0PhJdw9M?t=3133" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/av_0PhJdw9M?t=3133</a>
AI (or any other breakthrough tech) will only exaggerate the difference set up by the tax code. As long as there is an incentive to keep corporations growing the divide will increase.
Even though the concerns are genuine, the right answer is we do not know, and I actually think, it is the small guy that has less to lose from using AI models and may actually use it like a speed boat to attack the corporate tankers.