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What’s the net energy footprint of an employee working in an office whose job was made redundant by AI? Of course that human will likely have another job, but w

What’s the net energy footprint of an employee working in an office whose job was made redundant by AI? Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do. In other words, let’s calculate the “economic output per energy unit expended.” On that note, what’s the energy footprint of the return to office initiatives that many companies have initiated?

Scarblac 1y ago
When human civilization crashes due to yearly climate change caused famines it won't matter how useful the work done by the AIs was.
folkrav 1y ago
> Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do That’s a lot of big assumptions - that the job getting replaced was tedious in the first place, that those other “more productive” job exists, that the thing AI can’t necessarily do will stay that way long enough for it not to be taken over by AI as well, that the tediousness was not part of the point (e.g. art)…
carunenjoyerlp 1y ago
Net energy change of people doing work on their desk versus browsing the internet versus playing games, you will likely not see difference at all. They're all at rest, more or less thinking something. People at home sofa always have metabolic processes running regardless of whether it produces additional value to some corporation
lm28469 1y ago
> a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do. Like driving a uber or delivering food on a bicycle ? Amazing!