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The defining feature of emerging 21st century industry will be the near-complete independence of capital from labor.īoth labor and capital are secondary. That's the reason why advanced manufacturing countries like Germany and Japan will always suffer from a shortage of labor. Thus, more automation results in more revenue which results in more jobs. What is limited is the revenue to pay for these jobs. The higher revenue is in turn spent on services we haven't been able to afford in the past. The reason is simple: increasing productivity by automation results in more revenue (more wealth is created). Automation has always produced more jobs than it destroyed. Just by repeating the same old fallacy over and over again doesn't make it come true. New jobs are created for those who design and maintain these machines, but in vastly fewer numbers than jobs lost. Fewer and fewer humans are needed every year to achieve the same output. Quetzalcoatl wrote:The trend is quite unmistakable. Yes if you think about human flaws, it seems logical an AI would soon see no need for us and our idiocy. Whether lights out warehouses are implemented or not, that's the ever present danger anyway. it's the same issue with AI in general, they could turn on us.
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Your concern is a little more meta than security robots in a warehouse though. Rancid wrote:In the shorter term, robots won't be smart enough to do more than we program them to. It's death by hijacking automated systems around the planet. etc.) to manipulate us, hold us hostage, and ruin our lives.ĭeath by AI isn't death by physical robots. They are more likely to take over key functions of our infrastructure (data centers, power plants, transport networks, social media, etc. They do not have a physical robot body, they effectively live on the internet. Most AI is implemented in servers/clouds/datacenters. The thing about AI you need to understand is that it won't be physical robots that take over and kill us. I do believe AI will eventually take over and kill us all. In the shorter term, robots won't be smart enough to do more than we program them to. One Degree wrote:What assurance do we have this is all they will be allowed to do?