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Here in the USA, you have to be afraid for your job these days. Layoffs are rampant everywhere due to outsourcing, and now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient, but we really know what it is actually going to be used for. They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI. But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It's not like you can train someone who's a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse. So you have the entire tech industry basically folding in on itself trying to win the rat race and get the few remaining jobs left over.....

But it should be pretty obvious that you can't run an entire society with no jobs. Because then people can't buy groceries, groceries don't sell so grocery stores start hurting and then they can't afford to employ cashiers and stockers, and the entire thing starts crumbling. This is the future of AI, basically. The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don't have jobs and no income, not able to survive...

Like, how long until we realize how detrimental AI is to society? 10 years? 15?

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[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Right now there's a huge arms race between the big companies looking to be first in harvesting immense profits. The hype train is rolling, to attract business and investment.

If it becomes clear that its not profitable and won't become profitable, then the sudden revelations will come.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

how long until we realise the ones trying to force ai into everything are detrimental to society. Billionaires, big corporations and other tumors like that.

AI isnt the problem as it can be used for beneficial things, its abusers are.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

they can’t afford to employ cashiers

They've already removed most of the ones in the UK, it seems. Really worrying stuff when you realise how much they crept in during covid.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Most importantly "AI" doesn't exist.

But it's also worth nothing that absolutism is almost never helpful. I don't think data, statistics, computers, etc. are inherently evil technologies. It's the usual problem of how capitalism directs research and development towards violent control instead of liberation.

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