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breaditbans t1_j0lb5h4 wrote

Reply to comment by aFoxNamedMorris in The Reality of Universal Basic Income Future by Prototype47

Let’s not be mean about this. IF AI replaces work instead of augmenting work, we will have a lot of unemployed people. But, there will always be work to be done. The AI can’t thread a screw to repair a door knob from 1913. The AI can’t repair a furnace or install insulation. Manual labor is going to be fine.

It’s the administrative assistants that are facing a threat. The middle managers, the accountants and book work people. But these are mostly people with more than two neurons to rub together. They will find other things to do. I suspect we’ll automate the boring stuff and spend our work hours doing the human stuff. Presumably the work hours will be more productive and pay could increase.

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aFoxNamedMorris t1_j0mezu1 wrote

You are making the assumption that AI (presumably AGI, specifically) will remove all human jobs forever. This is entirely speculative.

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SCP-Agent-Arad t1_j0ou9t5 wrote

It certainly won’t happen while human labor is cheaper, even if just in the short term. Companies often only care about profits in the next quarter, CEOs don’t tend to care about the success of another CEO 30 years in the future.

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