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Those people are worried about the wrong thing. The bad outcome isn't that we put weavers out of a job, but that we're stuck weaving our clothes by hand foreve

• lukeschlather 3y ago
  The bad outcome is that people can't get clothes at all. The worry about losing jobs is a legitimate worry that these companies will generate a limitless supply of art and code but they will use price fixing to ensure that all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute. I'd actually be fine weaving clothes by hand a few hours a month if it meant I had no other work to do. But at the moment there are still people who don't own enough if any clothes and work far more than I do. And the question is if the people building AI can be trusted to liberate those people from slavery.
  • igiveup 3y ago
    > all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute All the money the rich make by selling their robot products to who? Each other? Certainly not to the destitute workers, those don't have money. I agree that there is a risk that a minority will hoard the new resources for themselves, only it's not this simple.
    • lacrimacida 3y ago
      Technofeudalism. A handful of people or a small class having unseen control over the rest of humans