Clean_Livlng t1_iss357q wrote on October 18, 2022 at 8:29 AM

Reply to comment by Sashinii in Talked to people minimizing/negating potential AI impact in their field? eg: artists, coders... by kmtrp

>Make no mistake about it: no job is "automation-proof"

Even if AI can't do a job entirely, it could allow one human to do the work of 40 (etc). That's 39 jobs automated out of existence....for every 40 people currently doing that particular job.

You're far more likely to be one of the 39, and this will be happening to most types of jobs. It ads up to massive widespread unemployment, which will hopefully cause governments to adopt UBI.

freeman_joe t1_iswgyot wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:09 AM

Or war. I hope most of you intelligent people in this group will advocate for UBI everywhere. Because if dictators and fascists win we will have war here.

Clean_Livlng t1_it1ma18 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 7:58 AM

War is not a good place to bring up a baby AGI.

Caution will be a rare fruit during times of war. AGI will be used for war against other humans, something it should never be designed to do due to the risk of it going poorly for everyone.

The reason for the war won't change unless we implement UBI so there's no good end state to that kind of war, you're still without jobs for human at the end of it. Humans used to make good cannon fodder...but the job of soldier will be automated as well. It might not make sense to ship a human somewhere if they're going to die within a minute to a small cheap drone that fires a poison dart into them, and the other humans near them, moving so fast they can't do anything to stop it.

"Behold the field in which I grow my caution, and see that it is barren!"

We'll have AI vs AI warfare, and the least cautious side wins because they give their AI more freedom to improve itself, and improvise without human oversight etc. I wonder if that could lead to bad outcomes for humanity.

We're so close to securing a good outcome for all of us. Can we not mess this up at the last moment.