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There’s a large supply chain that AI is dependent on that requires humans to function. Bees might be a better analogy since they produce something that humans

• allturtles 2y ago
  > There’s a large supply chain that AI is dependent on that requires humans to function. ...for now. Given sufficient advances in robotics, why would you expect that to continue?
• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  > Bees might be a better analogy since they produce something that humans can use. And yet they're endangered, and we already figured out how to do pollination, so we know we can survive without them - it's just going to be a huge pain. Some famines may follow, but likely not enough to endanger civilization as a whole. Thus even with this analogy, if humans end up being an annoying supply chain dependency to an AI, the AI might eventually work out an alternative supply chain, at which point we're back to being just an annoyance.
  • ben_w 2y ago
    > Some famines may follow, but likely not enough to endanger civilization as a whole. I'm not confident enough to rely on that: most people in the west have never encountered a famine, only much milder things like the price of one or two staples being high — eggs currently — never all of them at once. What will we do to ourselves if we face a famine? Will we go to war (or exterminate the local "undesirables") like the old days? How fragile are we now, compared to the last time that happened? How much has specialisation meant that the elimination of certain minorities will just break everything? "Furries run the internet", as the memes say. What other sectors are over-represented by a small minority?