Yes, I do have serious concerns. About kids and AI: I believe that AI is going to kill a large percentage of entry level office jobs in the next 5-10 years. S

Yes, I do have serious concerns. About kids and AI: I believe that AI is going to kill a large percentage of entry level office jobs in the next 5-10 years. Some physical jobs too, maybe, for example robots for simple manual jobs in restricted areas. Right now all great powers are racing towards the next stage of AI without even thinking about the consequence, because they are scared that someone else might get the ultimate weapon first. What if X manages to push out some AI powered Drone fighter plane swarm before the other countries? What if Y manages to automate certain physical jobs and massively cut down costs and improves efficiency (like the ports)? The consequences are of secondary, if any concern. It's similar to trains replacing wagons, but on a much, much broader front, and happens much much faster. I have said this before and I say it again: Anyone who is NOT 1) A John Carmack level programmer, or 2) Financially free (and financially free for their kids if any), should NEVER actively participate in any activity to integrate AI into their work. It's fine to USE AI, but it is bad to INTEGRATE AI. AI doesn't do much if you don't integrate it properly. About industrialization, or de-industrialization: Well I don't see any politician can reverse that, at least in North America. The 40 years or so of globalization has raised not one, but two generations of politicians, bankers and workers who are well adapted into the reality. What? You got laid off because the factory got moved to China/Mexico/Indonesia/etc.? Tough luck buddy, no one cares about you. If you want to reverse the trend, I'm very sorry, but you have to have a clean slate to even start with. That means a lot of bad things. A lot of political in fights. A lot of economical ups and downs (mostly downs). A lot of assassinations perhaps. And you know what -- it's still going to fail, and eventually everyone calls for wars. Why did we have the second World War? Hitler didn't single-handedly push the German people into a bloody war. They got pushed by the Great depression and the badly managed Weimar republic! Now I feel that we are not too far away from the next war, which might be the final one. And by then everyone, everyone from the West and the East, are going to call for wars, because it's a lot easier to go into wars than going into a true reform/revolution.