> I don't see how it would have effects different from those of previous revolutionary technologies that have improved the human condition. It will greatly red

> I don't see how it would have effects different from those of previous revolutionary technologies that have improved the human condition. It will greatly reduce the demand for labor in many fields (off the top of my head: customer support, artists, any kind of writing or clerical work, and probably programmers and IT pros in general), and the benefit of this productivity gain will largely be reaped by the owners of LLMs and the companies using them in the form of higher profit margins. It's not at all clear that it will trickle down to the displaced workers. > privileged classes feel threatened Ironically, I actually believe a lot of the overly optimistic takes come from a point of privilege. Think the FAANG types making $250k a year, for whom everything in life has more or less worked out well, and who have difficulty envisioning a future where things don't just keep on working out well.