valdanylchuk t1_it6h6ef wrote on October 21, 2022 at 7:58 AM

Just wait until some AlphaZero of economic planning or politics. Then we will have major societal transformations for sure. Still, I think they will take decades to implement once unlocked, because of the friction of human bureaucracy and real world logistics.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_it6t7kh wrote on October 21, 2022 at 10:47 AM

That's definitely a wild card, politics. I don't foresee politicians giving up the reins easily. But I don't think that's even a possibility aside from some ultimate AGI being let loose and all that.

Realistically, I think policy makers won't be able to be quick enough to deal with a lot of this. Unless they just try and ban AI from automating jobs. People will be unemoyed and corporations will be lining their own pockets.

I'm not much of a political person though, and it's hard to predict human nature.

blueSGL t1_it7gxtg wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM

> I don't foresee politicians giving up the reins easily.

they don't need to, politicians are already advised by groups they surround themselves with, if one of those advisors is AI (or more specifically for one of those human advisors uses an AI and pass off the advance as their own) and the politician gets ahead due to the advice then they'd all want to use one.

Then you have all the multi competing agent fun like flash crashes in the stock market due to high frequency trading algorithms battling it out.

Fun times ahead.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_it7hphe wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:23 PM

That's an interesting possibility. I don't care for politics much, but I suppose a candidate that uses AI will in fact be at an advantage. Every industry uses IT.

ihateshadylandlords t1_it7n25p wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:59 PM

That’s a very good point. Everyone’s talking about lower level workers being automated, yet no one’s really talking about replacing the shot callers of the world.