What I’m scared about is that we could all have pocket medical and legal advisors, pocket instruction manuals for any device or vehicle, we could all have a pretty great personal, financial and life planner in our pockets that could provide real equity in society by giving people access to these tools who really could benefit. But instead we will lose it because we were told to be afraid of something because other people couldn’t maintain gouging us
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Capitalism 101:
And so on.
I do think it will improve life for some but for others it will suck. Example: it much, much easier and cheaper to give each gig worker a micro-managing AI voice I their ear than it is to replace workers with robots (work in Amazon warehouse if you don’t believe me). And job automation in white collar sectors will mean more people are taking gig economy jobs.
Maybe it will be cool. Show up at a construct site, sign in, and get told what to do to help frame a house with no real skills (“take a stack of studs to the location on your HUD”). You are now making money without needing other people to supervise that much (skilled framers still do most if it but you keep them more productive). And you could do that for two hours and hand off to the next person.