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Although the apparent effectiveness of LLM is very recent the irony of this concern is that it is exactly what we were always told. For a hundred years we were told AI would take over all the mundane tasks and free humans from the drudgery of work and now it is actually happening we are panicking. We need to stop trying to hold on to salaries from basic administration jobs and fundamentally reorganise how society is renumerated and accept our brave new world. The only fly in the ointment is that would require inspired and brave leadership and that is thin in the ground since the media weeds out all the very capable candidates as they are often very eccentric too.
That gets much more difficult when AI is used to empower the police/surveillance state that serves the interest of capitalists.
The type of difficulty you outline is probably at its worst only short-lived and works on the assumption that the interests of a necessarily independent mature AI would align with those of the governing state or capitalists. I think in truth the sort of people that think control and power naturally rests with them are in for a rude awakening. I think the end point of AI's interaction with humanity will be egalitarian, for good or bad.
People rarely think through the consequences of what they wish for until it starts to come true. People are now realizing that they didn't actually want everything to be automated because it means they will lose their power and have no impact on the world. One option is to ignore this new knowledge we are waking up to and "accept our brave new world" where humans are powerless and have no purpose other than to serve machines. The other is to fix our mistakes, abolish the technology and go back to the old ways of living which our ancestors were much happier under.
No you just have to fucking kill billionaires an tyrants.
The issue isn't technology, its authoritarianism and capitalism.
I don't think that fixed things in the French or Russian revolutions, it actually made things worse. Kill the billionaires and new ones will take their place. Before you destroy the old system you need a new one that is better and additionally prevents the old system coming back.
The biggest mistake billionaires are making is the belief their wealth and acknowledged development of rudimentary AI will give them any special privilege with emerging autonomous inorganic intelligence.
Me? You do it
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I do not think going backwards could ever work and is not in the nature of humanity. I think machine intelligence taking over layers of activity does not intrinsically need to mean people are devalued in the way one person helping another does not devalue them. Most of the power current employment has is in its wages. All technology is a human thing, AI once out of the box has the potential to be extremely powerful, probably ultimately more able than we are but again this need not devalue us in the way a child moving beyond the parent does not devalue the parent. But we do need to radically change society to accommodate it and also perhaps admit everything has its time. And we are perhaps moving beyond the time of our unquestioned intellectual dominance. It was always on the cards one way or another.