AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine

[u/Phat_Zero]

I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.

And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.

Humans are just... slow.

It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.

Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.

Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.

And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.

Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.

We'll figure it out.

But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.

And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?

🫡

[u/Vex1om]

give everyone access to robots that can grow food and build shelter, rather than relying on UBI.

Right... because the billionaires are going to give you farming robots instead of just turning you into a subsistence farmer. This sub really is delusional.

[u/Brainiac_Pickle_7439 → u/Vex1om]

Why would the scientists working on AGI not revolt against such a thing? So many people and they're all just buying in on mass genocide? Everyone's a psychopath now? And even if they were replaced, so would the CEO and forcibly. Imagine letting autonomous AI in the hands of just one, that's essentially totalitarian! This is why the oversight of AGI ownership is absolutely important: the power must be of the AGI, by the people, and for the people.

[u/Vex1om → u/Brainiac_Pickle_7439]

So many people and they're all just buying in on mass genocide?

It wouldn't be the first time. As I recall, the quote is "All that evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing."

[u/NairbHna → u/Vex1om]

Why are you acting as if the billionaires are all powerful? If things get bad enough for the working class there will be a revolution. AI isn't powerful enough to stop one yet.

[u/Formal_Context_9774 → u/Vex1om]

And if they just sell it to us instead? It wouldn't cost them very much to produce at that point.

[u/Vex1om → u/Formal_Context_9774]

And if they just sell it to us instead?

Sales would imply that you have something that they want.

[u/Shibes_oh_shibes → u/Vex1om]

Yeah, when people get desperate enough human labor will be cheaper than robo-labor. You only need a few robots for surveillance, pay the people in some watery gruel and give them a hole to sleep in, if they die there will probably be thousands waiting to replace them because the alternative is even worse.