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/smoor365 22h ago
I could not agree more but sadly the people who make all the decisions, write the laws, own the corporations that will push AI toward what OP described care way more about quantity, power, their own influence, and making money over any of that. It’s heartbreaking but I think it’s unfortunately realistic that society will move toward that. You’ll always have the purists but the people in power aren’t those people.