This is the part about generative AI that gives me the most profound anxiety about our future.

Every thing I know about human psychology tells me that in order for people to thrive, we need to be needed by others. A world where everyone is more or less alone consuming media automatically generated machines might be a world where people nominally have all their problems solved, but it's a world where everyone will be absolutely miserable.

We are already living in the throes of the societal impact of outsourcing or automating away many of the male-dominated blue collar jobs in the US that provided fulfilling jobs for people with limited education. Where do you think so much of the male rage driving US politics today is coming from?

Now imagine what happens to the fabric of society if you automate away most of the white collar jobs too.

People are like border collies. If we don't have a job, not literally a job job, but like, meaningful work in service of others we care about, we will start chewing up the furniture.