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> just enough skilled to be worried their life's worth is going to be replaced Everyone starts out that way. When you start work as a coder, or an artist, or w
by esperent 1y ago
> just enough skilled to be worried their life's worth is going to be replaced
Everyone starts out that way. When you start work as a coder, or an artist, or writer, you are just enough skilled to make money. You can bypass some of this step by university or other forms of education, or you can be lucky enough to have spent your teenage years developing a skill that makes you money as an adult. But nobody starts out highly skilled.
It's a genuine source of worry that AI will subvert the process of people going from "just skilled enough to make money" to "highly skilled". I'm not fully convinced that it will - I think it's likely that in the long term society will adapt, just as it did to other tools.
But nonetheless it's a valid concern that shouldn't be dismissed. As with other new tools, it's going to disrupt a lot of people's livelihoods and we should approach that with empathy rather than telling people they simply weren't skilled enough to deserve to continue their career in this new reality.