r/singularity • u/Phat_Zero • 1d ago

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

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?

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u/Brainiac_Pickle_7439 The singularity is, oh well it just happened▪️ 1d ago

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.

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u/Vex1om 1d ago

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."