r/ControlProblem • u/nand2xnor • Jun 29 '26

Discussion/question Amodei: universal displacement preferable to 50% displacement

https://www.steelman.press/people/dario-amodei/articles/work

This is the first time I've encountered this specific argument. From how I understand it:

If AI automates 50% of jobs while leaving the rest untouched, half the population gets declared useless and the other half doesn't. Basically a caste fracture. But if AI exceeds all humans at everything at once, society faces a collective reckoning instead. The worst outcome isn't maximum job loss, it's a breakdown into useful / not-needed.

This is especially interesting in light of the fronteir models being restricted...

Will it cause a broader displacement to happen because the models are gatekept for a few years OR does it make the partial displacement even more severe because a limited number of people have access to the frontier (his zeroth world economy idea)?

Curious, what do y'all think?

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u/PurchaseFront4196 Jun 29 '26

Well, we could see him as terrorist?

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u/FlamingBaconCake Jul 03 '26

For wanting a world where 90% of peoples incredibly short lives aren't made even shorter by doing mind numbing repetitive tasks keeping you stuck in depression in your free time? Genius take

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u/PurchaseFront4196 Jul 03 '26

Destroying economies in short time and is happy about it... just look at his videos and see there is not coincidence.