Will AI take your job?

What guardrails are in place to ensure we the humans remain in control

Well, the "godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton said that we have to make AI treat us as it's "children". To me, that sounds like he's throwing his hands up and saying that the genie is out of the bottle.

To paraphrase yourself, we are on the cusp of outsourcing human thinking to a robot and I find that to be very concerning. But what is also of greater immediate concern is in people's ability to just generally get money through work in order to live in the society we've created and that more than likely means everybody on this thread.

AI may be of great benefit to us in many areas. I've been quite amazed at some of the things I've seen it do and by it's rapid advancement in such a short period of time. But I think that too many people are disregarding its obvious downsides and the major obvious downside is in the realm of work. As Hinton himself said "If AI, for example, can do a lot of mundane intellectual labour then it can, for example, replace people in call centres. So AI can actually do a better job, those people are often poorly paid and poorly trained and don't actually know the answers to the questions you're asking. AI will be much better than them…and cheaper. Now that should be good, it should be that when we increase productivity people benefit. The problem is, in the system we have, the people who own the call centres will benefit, the workers will get fired and it's not clear what jobs they'll do. So the net effect could be very bad."

You also said that we're "playing with fire". My issue is who has their hands on the match.

How about don't play with fire in the first place - apparantly that idea hasn't copped on!

Well im kinda with you on that - but we’ll all suffer as a result - higher costs to deliver services that can be supplied at a much lower cost- Archaic systems - massive costs of upgrade to simply cover voluntary redundancy packages etc etc etc

Saying that - if people in early 50s in private sector doing work destined for redundancy have a chance to jump to public sector employment - my advice would be take it

We’re destined for destruction -and have been for 1000s of years- we’ve no idea how to behave properly as a collective population on this planet - and we never will. Only difference today vs 1000 years ago is that we’re super charging ourselves towards oblivion today - pace has vastly increased

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Also we pretend we are better then we were 100+ years ago (as a collective 'better' society) however our instincts are the exact same.

Only difference is 100+ years ago the behavior that we all would participate in if allowed is largely viewed as unacceptable but given the chance we would all be the exact same.

There will be businesses, but logically there won't be enough to offset the rise in unemployment unfortunately.

I'm a bit of a doom and gloomer, but I think if the AI dream comes true, then it will be fundamentally different this time compared to previous revolutions.

Previously what we have been talking about is automation. Rows of workers with desk calculators are replaced with one worker with a PC and a spreadsheet package. But the PC user still needed intelligence to design the spreadsheets and make sure they were correct. But if a machine can also provide the intelligence, what is left?

Your view depends on some limit being hit, requiring humans to step in.

If AI really can do everything humans can do, which would also require robots, then we can relax on the beach as AI provides for everyone's needs.

how will we redistribute the wealth created by ai tech, by what mechanisms, in order for all humans to be able to provide themselves with all their needs, especially their most critical of needs such as housing, critical consumables, i.e. food, water, clothing, and other needs, medical needs etc etc?