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0 pointsuntrust10mo ago0 comments

Another question: If AI is going to eat up everyone's jobs, how will any business be safe from a new competitor showing up and unseating them off their throne? I don't think that the low level peons would be the only ones at stake as a company could be easily outcompeted as well since AI could conceivably outperform or replace any existing product anyways.

I guess funding for processing power and physical machinery to run the AI backing a product would be the biggest barrier to entry?

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zhobbs10mo ago

Yeah this will likely lead to margin compression. The best companies will be fine though, as brand and existing distribution is a huge moat.

azemetre10mo ago

“Best” is carrying a lot of wait. More accurate to say the monopolistic companies that engage in regulatory capture will be fine.

jrs23510mo ago

Empowering the current US President to demand more bribes.

layer810mo ago

Institutional knowledge is key here. Third parties can’t replicate it quickly just by using AI.

lubujackson10mo ago

Luckily we are firing all those people so they will be available for new roles.

This feels a lot like the dot boom/dot bust era where a lot of new companies are going to sprout up from the ashes of all this disruption.

floatrock10mo ago

Also: network effects, inertia, cornering the market enough to make incumbents uneconomical, regulatory capture...

AI certainly will increase competition in some areas, but there are countless examples where being the best at something doesn't make you the leader.

JKCalhoun10mo ago

The beginning of the AI Wars?

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