Submitted by Gari_305 t3_z7swo5 in Futurology
Uvtha- t1_iyc978c wrote
Reply to comment by ZephkielAU in How will the space economy alter society? by Gari_305
Not yet, but it almost certainly will. When we have more advanced robotics, and fully functional AI systems they will replace most if not functionally all human labor.
The real reason automation hasn't replaced human labor is that the robots still require human input. When AI reaches a sufficient stage it no longer will. Also at that point there will likely be a shift away from robotics designed to be utilized by human to ones designed to be utilized by AI. Things like operating nano machine masses in tandem that humans couldn't even accomplish if they wanted to.
To be clear I'm talking about more like in 100+ years than in 10-20 or whatever. It really depends on how advanced AI gets how quickly but there's no reason not to expect (barring our premature extinction) that eventually AI/robotic systems will be able to do anything humans can currently do, but better and faster, including art. Even in it's current infancy we can see how easily it can replicate human effort, just project that down the line.
At such a point human labor (and even human creativity) will become superfluous at a technical level in almost all situations. What happens to humanity from there, it's hard to say. It could be the end of us, or some weird transhumanist shift, or I dunno a voluntary simplification into one of those goofy star-treky super agrarian utopias ... who can really say.
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