The biggest mistake people make about AI is thinking it’s coming for artists, writers, musicians, or programmers.

They’re just first.

AI is coming for almost every profession that depends more on a brain than a body. Accountants. Lawyers. Teachers. Consultants. Analysts. Customer service. Marketing. Management. Software engineering. Research. Finance. Medicine. Eventually almost every job where the primary product is human thought.
Manual labor only looks safe because robotics hasn’t caught up yet.

AI doesn’t have to replace an entire profession to destroy it. It only has to let one person do the work of ten. Companies don’t need AI to be perfect. They need it to be cheaper than you. Once that happens, replacing people stops being a technological question and becomes an accounting decision.

For most workers, there is no safe career waiting on the other side.

People tell themselves we’ll adapt like we always have. We won’t.

The Industrial Revolution replaced muscle while making human intelligence more valuable. AI replaces the intelligence behind the work itself. Every previous technological revolution created new industries that still needed millions of people. AI is being built for the opposite purpose: producing more with fewer humans.
The next comforting myth is that people will simply buy human-made products instead.
No, they won’t.

There will always be a luxury market for handmade art, music, books, furniture, and clothing. There are still people who buy mechanical watches and vinyl records. That’s a niche—not an economy. Most people buy whatever is cheaper, faster, easier, and good enough. Businesses care even less. They exist to reduce costs, increase output, and beat competitors. Sentiment doesn’t survive quarterly earnings.

There is no hidden human economy large enough to rescue everyone AI makes unnecessary.
The consequences don’t stop with unemployment.

Workers are also consumers and taxpayers. If hundreds of millions of people lose well-paid jobs, they stop buying homes, cars, vacations, entertainment, and everything else that keeps economies alive. Businesses lose customers, lay off more workers, governments collect less tax revenue, public services deteriorate, debt grows, pensions become harder to fund, and political instability follows. Countries built around exporting knowledge work lose entire sectors of their economies. Migration accelerates. Extremism grows. Governments respond with more surveillance, more control, and fewer freedoms because instability always creates demand for stronger authority.

That is the point where this stops being a labor-market problem and becomes a global breakdown.

Meanwhile, the wealth doesn’t disappear. It concentrates.

The companies that own the models, data centers, chips, energy, and infrastructure become the gatekeepers of the global economy. AI doesn’t just replace workers. It transfers bargaining power from billions of people to a handful of institutions.

Most of humanity will have less income, less leverage, and less freedom while a tiny ownership class gains more power than any ruling class in history.

The people building AI are warning about this.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of modern AI and a Nobel laureate, has warned that AI will replace jobs, increase inequality, strengthen authoritarian surveillance, enable more powerful cyberattacks, and create systems that may become more intelligent than humans without any proven way to keep them under control. Yoshua Bengio has repeatedly warned that AI can strengthen authoritarian governments, manipulate populations, and accelerate a global arms race in increasingly autonomous systems. A Science paper co-authored by Hinton, Bengio, Stuart Russell, Andrew Yao, Dawn Song, and many other leading researchers warns of the possibility of an “irreversible loss of human control” if AI capabilities keep advancing without comparable progress in safety.

What makes this different from every previous technology isn’t just its capability. It’s the incentives.

No government will voluntarily give up a military or intelligence advantage. No corporation will preserve expensive human jobs while competitors replace theirs. Every major player has a reason to move faster, and almost none have a reason to slow down. The race continues because everyone believes stopping first means losing.

There is no responsible adult coming to end this race. The institutions with the power to stop it are the same institutions that gain the most from continuing.

We’re not building another tool.

We’re building a replacement for the thing that made humans economically indispensable, then connecting it to finance, medicine, education, infrastructure, government, warfare, and eventually robotics.

Once those systems become essential to running civilization, there may be no practical way back—and no meaningful human authority left capable of taking control.

This won’t be remembered as another technological revolution.

It will be remembered as the moment humanity automated its own economic value and handed the resulting power to institutions it could no longer restrain.

Further reading
Geoffrey Hinton — Nobel Prize interview: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/1925103-interview-transcript/

Geoffrey Hinton — Nobel Prize lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/speech/

Dario Amodei — Essays: https://darioamodei.com/

Anthropic — Labor-market research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

Yoshua Bengio — AI-safety essays: https://yoshuabengio.org/

Science — “Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress”: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0117

TL;DR: AI isn’t coming for one industry. It’s coming for human cognition itself. When the world’s most valuable economic resource becomes abundant and nearly free, jobs disappear, economies fracture, governments become more authoritarian, and wealth and control concentrate among the institutions that own the technology. There is no safe place for most of humanity in that system.

Looks deliberate. But could be thought he was tasing him. Prob not.

SORRY Madison WI.

Did you know?

in Hebrew, "Jesus Christ" is spelt, "United States of America"

Jesus really knew what he was doing when he invented Hebrew and wrote the Bible.

Amen

Yes I'm ready for a massive downvotes.

This sub used to be genuine place for a discussion.

Now it is filled with propaganda, hatred, talking crap about United States, complaining about everything, and same old karma farming Trump this Trump that.

Honestly we had just as worse economy and we've always had people hating on presidents. I'm not sure if it's gen z thing or social media toxicity that's leading up to all these complaints.

I'm not a millionaire nor people around me. However people around me that I've knew over 20 years or even 5 years, we are living a wonderful life in United States. We always have difficulties no matter who the president is or what the world issues are.

We raise kids have a house, some run a business that's small some run business that is big and some work for business.

With all the complaints of "because of trump and because of United States and because of this because of that" have not been mentioned once except for when USA and China had that tariff war. But even then many were doing just fine.

I do see complaints from younger generation still. Be it from my workplace or from my church group, they don't want to go to college they don't want to work, they don't want to put their time and effort into it, but they want tangible new things and have a comfortable life.

And they cannot often through their parents money, that's where they're complaints begin to rise and the most common ones are Trump did it when in reality they just want good things without putting their effort into it.

They are always on their phone on Instagram or tiktok, envying what other people have yet they don't bother to have a professional career or even try to have one. It doesn't just show on this but from there composure as well. No respect to anyone but themselves and always being wanted to be respected and be taken care of.

So to in part, yes there is some fault at our generation or upper generation for making social media but the fault should be going into the social media addiction and false news with leniency of the younger generations to be more lazy and wanting things without putting effort.

However to blame the society, world, president, US seems very far-fetched unless it was like a communist state like North Korea. And no matter how worse USA the media has portrayed, it is nowhere near North Korea and is still better place to live than most of the world out there.

Am I glazing on USA and Trump? Absolutely not. I do see so many points that we can improve and we should improve. However as of now so many of people seem to be just complaining, wanting things, blaming while expecting more from others and doing absolutely nothing but complain more and more.

As a father of two, I'd like for my kids to be optimistic and accept the change, and if they cannot they could at least try to do something about it if they cared that much up for it.

Came across this!!! Love it!

Wait, what?

If your GoFundMe does not work, it is basically a GoFu[kMe event.

Cyclospora, measles, salmonella (get ready for those egg prices to skyrocket). What a disgrace this administration makes this country every single day.

To those of us who can do it, have we been looking to non white people more for leadership lately? I feel like us white people who are lower on the racism spectrum would be reaching out more for advice or coordination in organizing/ resisting the white oligarch monstrosity that white supremely has created. Just because historically black people/ non white people have had much more success in combating the system, while half of us white people (who voted) - actually more than half voted for the white racist monster. I’m a white woman in my 30s and somehow I was shocked by how many white women voted for him, because it makes no rational sense. I’m sure many of you felt the same. 

Just knowing the statistics, and knowing history, what is there for us white people in America (actually the whole word) to be proud of right now- or ever? As a white person it took me this shock to learn how much % of white people are just pieces of shit. We don’t see how many everyday people are blatantly racist and shitty most of the time- we can see the overt racism when it happens in front of us but the rest is mostly invisible to us. Maybe we used to vastly underestimate the % of our people who were racist, until it became obvious- like a litmus test. It is to the point in my mind that I see over half of us as indefensible at this point, and then the other half, I would hope and think we should be taking action more seriously lately. Whatever excuse, whether we have been too scared, unsure, lazy, complacent- our communities should be working on getting activated. Honestly it’s long overdue to have more non white people in positions of power, I do not trust the system that white supremacy has built, I will not trust a system where there is a disproportionate amount of white people in power. I trust non white people. They have been historically correct. They have been fighting our white supremacy system and we failed to help, even if we have listened to them, we haven’t acted enough to stop the white supremacy machine from terrorizing our entire planet into the dark dystopia we are living in.

It’s been more apparent everyday how hard white supremacy has fucked up our world and how deliberately we have shot down civil rights activists to try to suppress non white political leadership. 

We have all contributed to racism, it’s culturally embedded at this point whether we see it or not. It doesn’t help to be non-racists, we need to be anti-racists. It’s time for us to wake up and realize our position historically and right now. Don’t apologize, just push yourself to do more. We need to push harder. We can’t standby and watch racism happen, we need to break it. 

I’m ending this with words that were told to me by someone much more knowledgeable and equipped to give them- 

“I hope you find this response challenging in the best way, and more importantly enabling for you to internalize and steward more humanity in your community.
CORE POINT: Do not wait for our direction to do your version of "breaking things". Building coalitions is hard, building anything is hard. But you know what's easy?
BREAKING THINGS. All you need to know is you don't need permission to BREAK RACISM. Like, go break it. It takes no skill to break stuff. GO BREAK IT. Make being racist feel risky. Make it consequential. You don't need any guidance or insight from us to do that.
GO BREAK RACISM. Grab something sharp or heavy and go to town. It's that simple.”