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What happens to us when AI becomes better than us at every mental task? Ignoring the economic factors, what does that mean for our self worth? If we know it’s
by sjaak 4y ago
What happens to us when AI becomes better than us at every mental task?
Ignoring the economic factors, what does that mean for our self worth? If we know it’s easier to ask a machine to do it, will we stop doing everything?
Can we reframe our purpose and just be content living?
(Above quote from: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1639368422763970562 https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1639368422763970562)
- pharmakom 4y agoWe will become a leisure society. Honestly that sounds great to me.
- tgv 4y agoWe will become a terribly impoverished society, with the unemployed fighting over scraps of food. There is no realistic path towards "a leisure" society, save for a world revolution.
- medvezhenok 4y agoLast time that technological revolution threatened this many people's livelihoods we got rise of Hitler and WWII (propelled by the petite-bourgeoisie), and I imagine that this time we won't get away without a conflict of a large caliber either (fighting over the distribution of the AI spoils)