We should be elated that AI are taking peoples jobs because they are no longer jobs people “have” to do.
Instead people are terrified (and rightly so) because no jobs in a society that requires you to have a job means you have no worth. The capital class will use the disproportionate power given by ownership of AI as the final step to go from owning mostly everything to just owning everything.
Ask yourself, if there comes a point in time where automation has replaced most of the human workforce, and automation has replaced most of the military and policing forces. Do you really think those at the top are going to view the unemployable and unhappy masses as anything other than a threat? What do you think they’ll do then?
I strongly believe in capitalism - but I can't deny that some changes will need to be made soon in order for 99% of people to survive being outcompeted by robots.
Blacksmiths and woodworkers had to train for more years than the average software engineer to start making a living. Their hard labour has been replaced by capital in a heartbeat. Should it be different just because our horses are higher and our hands cleaner?
Wherever you live, I suspect that it's bit more than _some_ change to capitalism that would be needed to accommodate for 99% of jobs disappearing.
The "there, I said it" at the beginning, the outdated stock footage, the music, the hopping between shallow arguments. The idealization of uniqueness and humanness. Mentioning that one random anecdote that was all over the news recently, then suddenly jumping to "AI Companies don't care about you". Also, for some reason, he's near a lake holding a piano.
I don't want to dismiss the unease that so many of us feel about AI, but this was more amusing than anything.
