One thing that your comments touch on here is just how little of the “Anxiety around AI” actually has to do with AI.
When e.g. Oracle lays off 30k workers, how little of that truly has to do with AI? vs. instead market instability etc. What complicates the issue is that most often, the corporation will claim that the layoffs are to better streamline the company in a future where AI will need fewer workers, so to prepare for that now… they’ll just go ahead and get rid of them immediately.
So this isn’t even people using AI inappropriately, this is people blaming AI for what they wanted to do anyway, for reasons if profit.
Then again, events such as those presage what is to come: when AI truly can do it all, how will humans be able to earn a paycheck? Spoiler alert: not all of us will. And especially in the meantime there will be period of transition and upheaval.
This is what I felt your comments lacked acknowledgement of: not the downside to using the tools but the wider conversation that uses the keyword “AI” but has really barely anything to do with it, as opposed to political and social and economic forces.
One thing that your comments touch on here is just how little of the “Anxiety around AI” actually has to do with AI.
When e.g. Oracle lays off 30k workers, how little of that truly has to do with AI? vs. instead market instability etc. What complicates the issue is that most often, the corporation will claim that the layoffs are to better streamline the company in a future where AI will need fewer workers, so to prepare for that now… they’ll just go ahead and get rid of them immediately.
So this isn’t even people using AI inappropriately, this is people blaming AI for what they wanted to do anyway, for reasons if profit.
Then again, events such as those presage what is to come: when AI truly can do it all, how will humans be able to earn a paycheck? Spoiler alert: not all of us will. And especially in the meantime there will be period of transition and upheaval.
This is what I felt your comments lacked acknowledgement of: not the downside to using the tools but the wider conversation that uses the keyword “AI” but has really barely anything to do with it, as opposed to political and social and economic forces.