Good question. When companies start laying off everyone because AI takes over, then how will their customers afford to buy their products?
What good is their AI when they no longer have customers?
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yuknowhokat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If so many jobs move from actual humans to AI what happens to those humans who lose their jobs? It takes far fewer people to maintain an AI instance than the number of people it took to do the job. There won’t be enough other jobs for people to do so does this mean that universal basic income becomes a thing? This would of course require much higher taxes on the most profitable companies.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
thegarbagebird@theblower.au 4 weeks ago
@yuknowhokat @Pro what? why would they do that? no, they'll just commodify the permanent underclass.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes, AI (specifically AGI) is the path to socialism. Leftist are only opposed to it at the moment because the right is also optimistic about the tech, so they need to take the opposite stance.
SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 4 weeks ago
@Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat orrrr, leftists realize that automation doesn't guarantee anything in terms of political arrangements and, having analyzed the structure and ideology of current LLM ownership, recognize that the dangers of expanding water consumption and GHG emissions are certain, the capacity for disinformation is immense, and the theoretical benefits are decades off, if they ever happen at all.
waitworry@sakurajima.moe 4 weeks ago
@SallyStrange @Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat weird how under capitalism every technological advancement just makes us work more and not less
YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world 4 weeks ago
@SallyStrange @Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat When they haven't tried actual diversity, but turn to the machines for help? That's not a good look.