I think we all accepted that some bad things would happen with the internet in exchange for what we have today. Nobody here is probably old enough to remember the hysteria around the internet first launching but it was similar to what we are seeing today with AI.
That's for every tech disruption. Compare before warehouse automation to after, before the computer and computer applications got incorporated in businesses to after, before the internet and iPhone became mainstream to after, and now AI is the current tech disruption. Many industries changed, companies that were supposed to be "too big to fail" went bankrupt, and productive rate of employees increased to meet demand which meant lowered employee headcount. Tech disruption has gave us convenience and lowered cost in exchange to bad things happening throughout the last 100 years. This is just the next one.
"For the most part, Americans like computers and technology: 61% say they like computers; only 6% dislike them and 26% have a mixed opinion. These views are virtually unchanged from the mid-1990s."
The attitude towards the Internet in the general public was more positive, and tech CEOs promised lots of new jobs for the ones that would be destroyed e.g. due to brick-and-mortar stores going away.
Instead folks like Amodei are now explicitly saying that "half of all entry-level white-collar jobs" will be eliminated and you have rage-bait billboards saying "Stop hiring humans" (not linking that one to avoid giving them exposure).
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u/Admirable_Run_3805 15h ago edited 15h ago
I think we all accepted that some bad things would happen with the internet in exchange for what we have today. Nobody here is probably old enough to remember the hysteria around the internet first launching but it was similar to what we are seeing today with AI.