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[No BBC=Anger]

See the expanse. Earth might need universal basic income.

Either UBI or a greatly expanded authoritarian police state. I'm guessing some leaders would love option 2 and push for that but going by sheer numbers the out of work population would overrun it.

 

[Days like these...]

It's gonna decimate most white-collar work. And unlike previous technological advancements in the workplace, there will be nowhere for the unemployed masses to go. But it will take society/politicians at least a solid decade to implement programs to address this, so people will be fighting over entry-level retail and construction and healthcare jobs just to survive.

Ain't nobody (especially not office workers) going to be fighting over construction jobs too labor intensive and we Mexicans got those jobs on lock anyway.

 

[DrFigs]

It would make my job easier, but probably trivial. so i'd be paid a lot less.
I think we're going to see a ton of unemployment that are not gonna be made up. Probably an increase in menial work, but a decrease in wages all around.

 

[Mr1999]

Where I work we depend on labor, and we already have said workers to fill those roles, but the problem lies with everyone else's roles, many of which can be "delegated" to someone else. I work for a union, and I don't know how longer they will keep certain jobs on life support. From my experience with companies over the years they tend to operate like a bloc, when one business makes a move, others usually follow. Even if AI turns out to be nothing, just talking about it can trigger a chain reaction. They will use AI as a scape goat no matter what happens. You just have to look around and ask yourself, are x, y, z person bringing any value, can we make without said person? Its fucked up but that's how its looked at.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Hopefully new kinds of work will fill the gap... so instead of "the same volume/kinds of things are produced, but with less human labor" it could be "there are now entirely new possibilities in every direction to start building, opened up by the tech and its transformations, so hiring and work will continue, because we've automated one world as we suddenly have the ability to create a wholly new one on top."

A bit simplistic, but something in that direction is what I hope for.

I put zero faith in "UBI" etc being a way to save us. People need to actually be involved in the world with their labor (and involved in shared ways, eg all the labor & compromise that makes up a family), and you'll see an even darker dystopia if everyone becomes atomistic individuals paid by the state to live but without control.

 

[Laptop1991]

It will probably be both good and bad depending what it's used for and only after quite a while of fixing it and tweaking the software will it work to an acceptable level, i expect some chaos at first.

 

[GeekyDad]

I still think AI is an incorrect term for the technology. But considering the fast dependency we're offloading onto it, I could see the possibility of some crazy shit in the not-so-distant future.