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Mortal-Region t1_j73ize2 wrote

Reply to comment by ttylyl in Future of The Lower and Middle Class Post-Singularity, and Why You Should Worry. by ttylyl

>AI will dominate human labor and push them out of the market.

What will AI be laboring at if humans are out of the market? Ultimately, a product's value is its benefit to humans.

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ttylyl OP t1_j73zeh7 wrote

Yes but which humans and how. In the scenario I fear, AI would be laboring for the projects of the people who own it. Eventually over time one of the people who own ai/robot labor will decide that non-skilled unemployed people(most of us at this point) are useless overhead, we should spend less on keeping them alive.

Think about it this way, what are humans laboring for now? A:provide for eachother, food medicine etc to keep labor pool alive and healthy and B: demands of the rich and powerful. What if suddenly reason A becomes useless overhead(human labor useless for production, why waste ai power/labor on having them live comfortable lives), if you were to cut it out you have more power/money for B. Because the severe stratification of power, only those of the owning AI class will be able to make these decisions, and they are more than a little biased.

People have committed genocide over less

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visarga t1_j741vp4 wrote

> What will AI be laboring at if humans are out of the market?

Maybe it needs resources for self replication or evolution. AI might have its own needs.

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Mortal-Region t1_j7475mv wrote

That's the alignment issue -- that an AI might favor itself over humans. Here the context is the elite reserving the benefits of AI for themselves. I say that's a nonsensical idea because the value of AI derives from the benefits it provides to the masses. For example: lightbulbs, chips, the Internet, search engines, smartphones, etc, etc.

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