Technological progress reduces the amount of work required to perform certain tasks. In any just system, this would improve the lives of the general population, either by reducing the amount of work required to make a living, or by increasing the amount and range of products and services.

If technological progress does not do that, and instead makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, the problem isn't technological progress, but the system in which it is applied.

So what I'm saying is this: AI isn't the problem. AI replacing employees isn't the problem. The problem is that with a class divide into investors and workers, the ones profiting the most from technological progress are the investors.

The Big fear that a lot of people have with AI isn't the technology itself moreseo the fact that its advancements are likely to lead to a even more disproportionate distribution of wealth

...and no remote work! Office real estate will loose it's value banks become sad.

Displacing millions of workers

I have seen what AI outputs at an industrial scale, and I invite you to replace me with it while I sit back and laugh.

I'm more afraid of the flood of AI Generated CSAM and the countless people affected by non-consensual porn.

One of those things is perfectly fine. And that's what people object to the most.

That would be a good thing to poison AI models with, porn and pornographic stories.

Yes, end wage labour Next, destroy private and intellectual property

AI isn't on track to displace millions of jobs. Most of the automation we're seeing was already possible with existing technology but AI is being slapped on as a buzzword to sell it to the press/executives.

The trend is going the way of NFTs/Blockchain where the revolutionary "everything is going to be changed" theatrical rhetoric meets reality, where it might complement existing technologies but otherwise isn't that useful on its own.

In programming, we went from "AI will replace everyone!!!" to "AI is a complementary tool for programmers but requires too much handholding to completely replace a trained and educated software engineer when maintaining and expanding software systems". The same will follow for other industries, too.

Not to say it's not troubling, but as long as capitalism and wage labour exists, fundamentally we cannot even imagine a technology to totally negate human labour, because without human labour the system would have to contemplate negating fundamental pillars of capital accumulation.

We fundamentally don't have the language to describe systems that can holistically automate human labour.

What are you saying? That people without jobs aren't treated well?

I work a shitty job that doesn't care about me. I'll likely have to do it the rest of my life. I really hope AI doesn't take that away from me!