| SvennoJ said: Technophobic appeals are more for the loss of jobs, like the musicians in theaters. AI voices, AI actors, AI paralegals. Far more worrying is AI censorship, AI profiling, AI decision making. Who is responsible when 'the machine' did it. If one human makes a mistake, fire that person. If an AI program controlling all flights makes a mistake, err shit, all flights grounded until its fixed. Technophobic appeals might be right this time, albeit for the wrong reasons. |
Interestingly, these are some of the concerns raised by Ted Kaczynski in his manifesto, that you can't take the good of technology without the bad, and that when machines come to make most decisions to keep industrial society going, turning them off would be tantamount to suicide (because no one would even be able to understand how they're doing it at that point).
But unless we're going for a Butlerian jihad (spoiler: no one will, since any nation automating labor will have massive economic advantages over the others, no matter how many datacenters and power plants they have to build, even after accounting for increased welfare spending), that's something we'll have to find a way to contend with somehow.
At least photovoltaics are becoming and will continue to be the cheapest way of generating electricity in most of the world, so the carbon footprint should fully decouple from economic growth and be less of a concern going forward.
