A better analogy IMO is the transition from subsistence to industrial agriculture. Once upon a time, at least half the U.S. population worked in agricultural fi

A better analogy IMO is the transition from subsistence to industrial agriculture. Once upon a time, at least half the U.S. population worked in agricultural fields - then, to condense a lot of history, tractors and seed implanters and combine harvesters were invented, and now something like 2% of the U.S. population is directly involved in growing food (although certain vegetable and fruit crops are much more labor-intensive). I've never heard anybody bemoaning this development - agricultural field jobs are back-breaking and dull - but it did create a situation of greater societal dependence on a much smaller number of farmers. Ensuring that everyone gets enough food then becomes something of a socioeconomic problem rather than a technical problem. Now, if LLM-related technology starts making major inroads into the well-paid upper-tier employment sector, this could get a bit more interesting. My favorite suggestion is to use LLMs to replace shareholder-appointed corporate board members - and hey, why not the shareholders themselves? LLMs might be much better at generating capital from investments, and as they're not wasting the money on giant yachts and private islands, they might be much more efficient at plowing capital gains back into research and development and so improving manufacturing. This sort of highlights the fact that a society in which all the wealth is in the hands of a few aristocrats is a society doomed to eventual extinction, particularly in an era of rapid technological innovation.