You're all having fun now. But you'll regret using AI for anything because soon humans will become mostly fit for manual labour while AI concentrates the wealth of the world into the hands of the tech elite.
Then, without a human connection in teaching, children will grow up into psychologically damaged adults.
> soon humans will become mostly fit for manual labour
> without a human connection in teaching, children will grow up into psychologically damaged adults.
If humans are only going to be doing manual labor, what will the AI teacher be teaching? Do you need 16+ years of education for manual labor?
Just taking your argument at face value, I don't understand how "AI replaces nearly all human knowledge workers" leads to "children become psychologically damaged adults."
It seems like it would free them from being strapped into a chair for 16 years and denied the opportunity to be children in an attempt to prepare them for a life of knowledge work? Unless we just keep up the ruse of an entire childhood of classroom based education for ... reasons?
To push past your argument, society and knowledge isn't zero sum.
I'm not writing software because it's the single most important thing in the universe for me to focus on right now. It's actually pretty low on the list of important things on the grand scale of important things. I'm writing software because it's the work that needs to be done right now and there isn't a replacement for me doing it.
I feel like you are asserting that plugging numbers into spreadsheets as an accountant or doing string transformations "at scale" to convert DB queries into HTML and JSON is both: 1) A fulfilling life 2) The only thing humans could possibly be doing of value right now; if you take this away there is nothing left
There are a tonne of fundamental questions/problems about life, the universe, interstellar travel, preservation of our species, etc. that I _just don't have time for_ right now because I'm over here trying to figure out how to take these bytes coming over the wire from an SQL query and pack them into a JSON object so a browser can hydrate this bit of HTML. And I'm sorry, but, this isn't how I'd choose to live my life if there was someone else I could put in this seat.
Please AI take my job so I can be free to focus on all of the stuff that comes with the next layer of abstraction/automation.
No, that is bad too. I am rather asserting that we already have enough technology to work LESS, live more SIMPLY, and use our time to develop a sustainable way of living minimally without spending time endlessly seeking economic growth and industrial progress.
In other words: you know what beats one elite with an AI? Ten thousand well educated people each with their own AI.
So, now we'll be constantly fighting each other with endlessly evolving AIs. The world is already a cuthroat place with fierce competition.
Think of this analogy: imagine a karate match with people fighting each other. Sure, some people will get hurt but it's mostly controlled. Now imagine a world of people fighting each other by flying airplanes into each other...everyone dies.
We are unprepared for a new world where thousands of people fight for their slice of the pie with advanced AI, and it will either result in insanity or else a hugely more efficient use of resources (the FIRST thing people will do is find out how to use advanced AI to get a bigger slice of the pie) so that the natural biosphere will be even more efficiently destroyed.
Thanks for sharing.