The article title is very click baity, but I found the actual discussion and reasoning for why this will happen and how it can be stopped to be thoughtful.
There’s only 2 proposed problems in the article as far as I can tell. They’re not novel ideas, and the author brings no new evidence:
- “AI”’s disruption of the labor market.
- “AI” as magnifier of existing problems: fake news, scamming, military applications, domestic surveillance.
2/10 would not recommend the article
I’m thinking that gizmodo is not a very good publication
AI is going to be a good scapegoat as to why the current asset focused economy crashes when nobody can afford to buy the assets because they’ve exploited themselves to oblivion. We’re already going into a complete structural breakdown because the structure itself is already deranged. Trying to extrapolate how AI is going to decouple productive value further in a system where assets already are skyrocketing and wages are stagnant is foolish in my opinion. It’s already decoupled and barreling down the track with no brakes. It’s like blaming air BnBs for housing prices. Stupid and reductive.
I don’t think it was made to usher in utopia, but dystopian nightmare seems likely.
Doubt
Knowingly marching towards societal doom. Great. Murder these motherfuckers now and shut it all down.
