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The reason this comes up so often, is that this kind of advancement is mostly owned by the few and used to further increase the wealth/power gap. For instance,

The reason this comes up so often, is that this kind of advancement is mostly owned by the few and used to further increase the wealth/power gap. For instance, at my current employer we have about 30 content marketeers. Their job could be made much mor efficient with AI, leaving them room to do more creative work instead of toiling with crappy tools. This could create a lot of value, for our customers too if the quality increases. Yet every single 'manager' just sees AI as an opportunity to oust these people. They see workers as tools that should be replaced as soon as possible. They would rather have worse quality content, just more and cheaper. While this kinda holds for all technologies, the reach and impact of AI seems pretty vast. I feel some skeptisism is waranted tbh

wing-_-nuts 3y ago
>Yet every single 'manager' just sees AI as an opportunity to oust these people. They see workers as tools that should be replaced as soon as possible. They would rather have worse quality content, just more and cheaper. Yep, I once wrote an app that cut the time needed to process medical claims by half. I asked the manager what was going to happen to the medical claims staff. Were they going to be retrained? 'No. Half are getting let go as soon as this goes to prod.' I went from feeling very proud about the app to feeling absolutely terrible.
qudat 3y ago
> further increase the wealth/power gap The wealth gap is a distraction, it doesn't measure anything meaningful. We shouldn't care how big the wealth gap is, rather, are more people leading healthy, happy lives. To go further, equal opportunity is more important than equal outcomes.