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I guess my biggest worry is that the ones doing the outsourcing of all this "drudgery" are unlikely to be the workers who are currently being paid to do the wor

I guess my biggest worry is that the ones doing the outsourcing of all this "drudgery" are unlikely to be the workers who are currently being paid to do the work, but the owners who no longer have to pay them. The rest of society and our economy doesn't seem to be adjusting to hundreds of thousands or millions of people being "outsourced", so it's not likely there will be a lot of playing music and dancing for these people, though you may be more prescient than either of us are comfortable with, with the "berry picking" prediction...

gdubs 2y ago
Right - this is a big point of what I'm saying which is that people are skeptical that "this time the automation will work out really well for everyone, trust us!" Depends on your timescale, I suppose. But if AI is really about to take over everyone's work then we need to be having a much bigger discussion about what they imagine the billions of people on this planet will be doing in that scenario, and what kind of economic life they'll be living.