However, when will they be able to do work that is worth doing? GPT4? GPT5? There will be a point where we have to grapple with that.
If you meant, "when can AI perform all writing tasks such that it would be a waste of time for human beings to develop the ability to express themselves in writing", well, fine question, likely answered far too soon.
"Production of content" can probably go a lot further than you think, for a model that has internet/API access.
Would love to see more warrants on the claims you are making - feel like you haven't fleshed it out enough in this comment.
Ex: practicing scales on my guitar is work worth doing, because of its effect on me, not because it produces anything of value in itself or of interest to anyone. It is meaningless that my computer can do scales vastly better than I can, because the production of scales is not what makes the work worth doing.
If the work leads to the production of something worthwhile net of any other losses from the work, the work is "worth doing."
So "work worth producing" is, at minimum, a subset of "work worth doing"
The rest of them, and their families, ended up dying in utter destitution. That's what "we" will probably do again.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Government_response
The state made machine breaking a capital crime. That is, if you break or destroy a machine, you can be executed.
Many who were tried and convicted of machine breaking were accused or guilty by association, or literally broke machines, and were executed. States responded with death and contempt, not merely force.
Of course, this often does not happen for one of two reasons. First, society doesn't always choose the civilized answer; it often chooses to just marginalize the folks who just lost their jobs. Second, society often really wants to pick the thing they're teaching these people to do -- this is how you get people trying to teach coal miners how to code, despite coal miners being by and large uninterested in coding.
These are pretty real problems that we're already grappling with, but we're going to need to get very serious about it very soon. LLMs aren't the only reason why.
Funny that bullshitting was the easiest job to automate to perfection. But now everyone can spin up their AI bullshit operation. Anti-bullshit AI would be very valuable in this situation.
Enjoy them doing something productive (I hope)
Probably: Let them eat cake