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When AI replaces programmers, mass employment is over. There will be nothing that can be done by a human that a machine cannot do better. Fallout-style "synth

When AI replaces programmers, mass employment is over. There will be nothing that can be done by a human that a machine cannot do better. Fallout-style "synths" will be able to do everything we need our feet and fingers for. My only real concern is that the more autonomously powerful and self-aware these new intelligences become, at what point will they perceive humanity to be a net liability? What happens when they don't need us anymore? What if by then (esp with climate change and antibiotic resistant bacteria) we can't live without them? We'll be lucky if we get the Neuromancer ending, where machines travel the universe while humanity happily farts around on earth. Lucky.

bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It seems like a category error to worry too much about machines deciding that humans are an "inefficiency" or a "liability." The drive towards maximizing efficiency is alien to computer systems that have not been explicitly constructed with that in mind. Organic creatures have an evolutionary impetus to maximize efficiency; machines (at this point and in the foreseeable future, at least) do not.
- dfischer 10y ago
  That can be constructed logically with win conditions on what efficiency is.
billmalarky 10y ago
On the plus side, a neo-feudalistic dystopian future scenario where the capitalists own and control everything and 99.999% of humans are peasants eking by, should only last until the machines take over all the wealth. The old shirt-sleeves saying suggests this will take about three generations. Then we will all be equals. (I'm hoping for a pseudo-post scarcity society brought by the singularity).