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There's an obvious miss -- replacing a large number of humans performing a task with AI, retasking/firing those humans, then being unable (financially or skill-wise) to ever revert away from AI in the future.

Because that's a thing that has historically, repeatedly, and disastrously happened.

E.g. journalism

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There are always hipsters who get a kick out of doing things from scratch, in the old ways, yada yada, so while a company might lose out from over-automating, humanity could always revert if needed.

Coopers, shipbuilding, stonemasonry, blacksmithing?

There are a lot of highly evolved arts (emphasis on art) that, through lack of subsequent generations of journeypeople and/or commercial need... just sort of disappeared (at least in high art form).

Interesting… Reminds me of something else, recently there was some scandal about the USA’s programs to meddle with foreign democracies being deployed at home; sort of made me wonder if sometimes simply having some tech that improves things in the short term makes it an inevitability that it will get deployed, even if it makes things worse overall.

Food for thought: which countries will limit use of AI the most?

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