People here are way too optimistic.

The goal of technology within capitalist systems is to cut cost and inefficiencies for the capitalists. It has been a very very long project to eliminate the human from capital accumulation. The start of it was the removal of peasants and indigenous people from their land because "they not using (the land) (farming) (digging for gold) (...) efficiently".

At some point physical labor became hugely replaceable (mainly due to automatic control). So the only thing that is of value is people's creative minds: their ability to code, to design, to create art or music.

We are in the phase that the latter inefficiencies are going to get eliminated. This is the intended function of capitalism. It is the river that guides the current.

The final stake in the heart is coding itself. I know huge amount of CS majors who are now doing automated code generation because it is "challenging". It is like painting glitter on ourselves because it looks "interesting" without caring about where all those glitter end up.

We as scientists, researchers, people who work in technology are digging a grave for ourselves in pursuit of "knowledge". Our goals have been hijacked by people who want nothing more than more money. People who care nothing for science or knowledge or any meaningful questions. People like that apple exec like to drive "fancy cars" and "fondle big breasted women" doesn't give a rat's ass about the information bottleneck; yet hundreds of ML/software/hardware engineers work under him.

Also observe how most ML researchers are literally doing research at places with huge concentration of homeless people, poverty and social inequality. It is too late.