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I asked someone this question before and they said it was a really stupid question and I'm not sure why so thought I would ask it here...

What's going to happen when AI becomes really advanced? Is there a plan for what all of the displaced people are going to do? Like for example administrative assistance, receptionist, cashiers, office workers, White collar people. Is there going to be some sort of retraining program of some sort to get people cross-trained into other careers like nursing or other careers that have not yet been automated? Or are people just going to lose their homes, be evicted and is there going to be like some sort of mass eviction and homelessness downstream effect because people can't find any work?

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

We're already seeing it. Jobs are going down because AI allows companies to do the same work with less headcount.

There is no reality in which the workers actually benefit though. Never has been. When machine looms and steam engines came into being, the workers didn't get any richer or had to work less for the same pay either. Jobs disappeared, most people got other jobs, some better, most worse and the unluckiest starved.

History always repeats.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Jobs disappeared, most people got other jobs, some better, most worse and the unluckiest starved.

What happened is that people started to stay longer in school, agricultural labour withered, and with it, kids having to work the fields at a very young age. People became more educated, resulting in more democratic societies, more equality, and a higher standard of living.

This was not because of the machine looms and steam engines, but because greedy fucks used them to put people in a position where they had no choice but to push back, and that labour action created unions, five-day work weeks, 8-hour days, paid time off for sickness and leisure, and pretty much everything we take for granted.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is we need a revolution?

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well I'm up for that. It's just one of those things that are kinda hard on your own.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

History always repeats.

No.

Only if the people fail to learn from history, they are bound to repeat it.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Which we seem to do lol

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine if AI gets elected as the president of the USA because it is more advanced and reliable than human candidates. There has been nothing like that in history.

AGI would be very different to all other previous technological advances.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if AI gets elected as the president of the USA because it is more advanced and reliable than human candidates

It is not the good ones that get elected.

[–] AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 0 points 2 months ago

Just needs to be more orange then.