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Soundwave on 03 March 2024
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CaptainExplosion said:
Zkuq said:

AI will absolutely not be abandoned, period. It's too lucrative in many ways, and you can bet on everyone else pursuing AI, so you don't really want to get left behind either. Maybe it might be possible to get individual nations to not utilize AI, but you can't get the whole world to do that, and if your fear is AI killing us all, that's not even nearly good enough. The best you can probably realistically hope for is guiding AI development in a better direction, whatever exactly that might be.

Also, I fully expect AI to kill people sooner rather than later, if it hasn't already. I'm sure AI development for military purposes is in full speed and has been for a good while.

Well how do we survive small minded tech companies bringing the robot apocalypse?

There will be huge scale protests globally and riots even probably and massive movements globally to boycott industries that try to wholesale replace workers at some point. It will eventually get to a point where people get angry, sure when grocery workers are replaced it's one thing, but when more and more jobs and more and more people are unemployed, then there is going to be a upspring of anger against this unlike anything you've probably ever seen (you think COVID protests were bad, hang on to your butt). It will unite people from different sides of the political spectrum too, and even different classes. 

The whole economic structure of the world can't function if "regular people" don't have jobs, and if they don't have jobs they don't have money to buy all those things like iPhones, Tesla cars, houses, computers, Disneyland vacations, McDonalds on the way home, which in turn means corporations like Apple, Tesla, Disney, etc. etc. etc. etc. also will suffer. Even luxury brands like Louis Vuitton or Cartier, or BMW or Mercedes people save money for months/years to buy those products, how are they going to do that when they don't have jobs. 

So you'll even have the rich people saying "what a second, this is no good ... if those poor people don't have money to spend they won't buy what I'm selling". 

There will be at some point I think a call to ban this if it starts to replace jobs en masse, and if companies like Microsoft think they can just ignore it I wouldn't be surprised to see violent protests outside of their gates and widespread boycotts even outright bans in certain countries. 

This will get serious in the next 15-30 years. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 03 March 2024