Submitted by RavenWolf1 t3_y86qcp in singularity
At 2014 we had Humans Need Not Apply video by CGP Grey which sparked lots of discussion about AI and future of humanity. CGP Grey basically told us that we are new horses and eventually AI will take every job there is. However since then basically every single video about topic at Youtube had has narrative which parrots that old saying that robots/computers/AI are just tools and they will enhance us. That techonlogy will create new jobs for us all etc. I'm little worried about this one-sided discussion about this situation.
No matter if you search Youtube with term like "ai taking over jobs" or "will ai replace humans" basically all videos just say the same thing. It is like we are been conditioned to believe that way. It is like that is the fact and truth and we should shut up and listen the betters.
It seems like this is thing which have been taught in University of Economics as fact and everyone are just parroting those teachings without much thinking about the issue. When majority people believe that it is fact then parroted so much that basically nobody is publicly saying opposite expect in fringe sphere like here at Reddit. Basically nobody stop thinking what if.
0913856742 t1_isyc0u2 wrote
I imagine part of the reason is that there has not yet been widespread catastrophic workforce disruption due to adoption of AI and related technologies, and part of it is that the advancements we were hoping for seem to be taking longer than we expected, e.g. self-driving vehicles. And so there is a perception that these technologies are still way off, or that they will affect only a few narrow industries, or it's all happening in the background and isn't flashy, therefor it's nothing to worry about.
Kinda like climate change - maybe we can understand CO2 emissions and ocean currents and so on in the abstract, but hey, it's still snowing where I live, and I got bills to pay, so whatever, nothing to worry about, the penguins can wait. And then all of a sudden each passing year becomes the hottest year on record for some reason.
I imagine it's quite like that - it would require some widespread workforce disruption where many, many people across various domains of labour lose their livelihoods and not be able to retrain before the mainstream realizes we need to work on solutions, but by then the damage will have already been done.
For example in my country Canada, one of the biggest grocery corporations Loblaws announced they'll be testing these autonomous trucks earlier this month, and it doesn't seem to be talked about much in our media.