> The employer will either pay that worker more money as he is now more productive, or another employer will, purely out of self interest. Complete hogwash. Th

> The employer will either pay that worker more money as he is now more productive, or another employer will, purely out of self interest. Complete hogwash. This has _never_ been the case, save for CEOs or other executive positions. Pay for us plebs is and has always been a function of the availability of skilled labor. With AI, you’ve suddenly created _gigantic pools_ of skilled labor almost instantaneously, since you don’t really need to be skilled, just need to know how to ask a question correctly. With that hiring power, I would bet both of my feet that wages will absolutely go down, especially in high skill industries. And people like Andreesen? Shrugging. “Oops, guess I was wrong, oh fucking well. Good luck with that.” We should be creating AIs to replace or unseat rich assholes. I mean, is anyone really still wondering why some of the first “innovations” in AI have been mechanisms to replace some of the most highly paid workers in the world? People like Andreesen can’t wait to cut the legs out from the every day software engineer.