PBS recently had a good show about the AI revolution, saying it's similar to the industrial revolution. They show Embark AI/trucking in SF, and interview an uns

PBS recently had a good show about the AI revolution, saying it's similar to the industrial revolution. They show Embark AI/trucking in SF, and interview an unsuspecting truck driver: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/announcement/frontline-investigates-the-promise-and-perils-of-artificial-intelligence-in-a-two-hour-special/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/announcement/frontline-in... Excerpt about tearing society apart: "I believe about 50 percent of jobs will be somewhat or extremely threatened by AI in the next 15 years or so,” says Kai-Fu Lee, who has written a book called AI Superpowers. He fears that the rise of AI will contribute to another alarming trend: the growing inequality in earnings. “AI will exacerbate that and I think it will tear the society apart,” Kai-Fu Lee warns, “because the rich will have just too much, and those who are have-nots will have perhaps very little way of digging themselves out of the hole." It also mentions China's heavy investment in AI.