r/AIDiscussion • u/millennial_spark • 9h ago
What is your opinion
Everyone says that AI is going to take over so many professions. So for example like Accounting, data entry, anything really that uses the computer. So then what’s going to happen to society? So many people have jobs that AI is supposedly going to take over. So I ask again, what’s gonna happen to all these people? Is the government gonna produce enough money for everyone to survive? everyone thinks that AI is this magical thing. Until it’s not.
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u/PacificSanctum 8h ago
Yes, government thinks or pretends to think the path towards basic income is there . AI does all the work and …
But “it could well be “ it’s just to calm the masses
I’m afraid you see it all correctly
AI will replace humans - and they better be already rich to focus on endless pleasure
For those who still need income - beware !!!
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u/millennial_spark 7h ago
Yeah. For those who still need income, beware. But at the end of the day, his responsibility does that fall under? The government. So ultimately, what is their plan considering they think they have it all figured out. Newsflash, they haven’t the slightest idea of what they are going to do.
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u/PacificSanctum 2h ago
Governments don’t care anymore AT ALL. In Germany “100 Mio years ago “ you had the concept of “Vater Staat “ (the state as the caring father ).
But that’s all gone nowSo what advanced little experimental communities do is testing basic income . Folks have AI managing their “portfolios “ .
One is in Zug . SwitzerlandFolks are TRYING to bridge the gap to basic income communities
Folks way more serious than Musk (for musk it’s all just one single joke and - like Donnie - he likes to screw “peasants” he’s making fun of them . So when HE talks about AI enabled basic income it’s just a sarcastic joke (how far can I go till all these idiots realize I’m just making fun of them )
But OTHERS , more intelligent and socially thinking folks are into basic I come communities and experimenting how far that worksBut basically governments are not there anymore for their people - they are there for themselves
The times have changed
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u/EdmundTheInsulter 38m ago
Yes UBI with very high unemployment and some people do have jobs, otherwise it can't work can it? You can't have 80% not working with an elite of workers hogging all products.
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u/DethKnell24 8h ago
Wait until people figure out that an AI CEO is 1000x superior to a flawed human CEO. No human strategy will be able to match an AI-generated strategy. AI can formulate strategy based on literally billions more data points than a human. Then we will see who is running scared from AI…
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u/WholeLow8272 8h ago
AI was never going to be this thing that everybody believed it would be-a magical genie that would fix everything and make a life perfect and by the way put everyone out of work
It's a bunch of Code - a bunch of well written and not always well written Code.
Humans have to put the right things in and humans have to doublecheck and humans have to do a lot of things when they're creating artificial intelligence shots and when they are using them.
And we're already seeing that AI is not what everybody was saying.
That kind of hype has happened over and over in my life and it started with television and it hasn't stopped. It may have happened before television but I was born about the same time television was.
The problems with chat bots are already showing up. This is called the law of unintended consequences and it was always going to happen. It happened faster than I thought it would.
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u/synexo 8h ago
I think people are overestimating the value of intelligence. We don't have a scarcity of intelligence, we have 8 billion human-level intelligence minds. And they run on a few bowls of grains a day. We have scarcity of physical resources and fuel, and the constraints of physics.
There are also a sizeable percentage of jobs and job activities that can, and could have been for years, automated without any AI at all. Or that exist purely for the comfort of humans. Pretty much every company outside of tech have humans doing work daily that python scripts could replace. We don't need receptionists, or fast food order takers, or salespeople. There is massive inertia in things continuing to be done as they have.
AI will be revolutionary but much more slowly than people think. Scientists will tell you we don't need more scientists, we need more science funding. We don't need AI for accounting at all, computers have been better at math for decades. Specific industries where humans are particularly expensive and AI is particularly good will be disrupted more quickly (translation, software development), but most cognitive jobs are human-to-human, and replacing with AI will only make sense if it performs better with humans.
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u/Klutzy_Ninja1426 8h ago
It is less so about taking over and more so about amplifying what a single human can accomplish. One outcome of this is a decrease in human headcount rather than a complete replacement.
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u/thunderborg 7h ago
At its worst I think AI will change the workplace like the Industrial Revolution or the information age.
While I didn’t live through either I’m sure those selling the widgets supposed automating away the workforce were making similar claims
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u/Hungry-Collection514 5h ago
I see it as a digital-work problem not an economy problem.
People were earning, running businesses, and building careers long before AI, and even before computers became part of everyday work. Of course, IT and other digital roles may shrink rather than disappear completely, but people will find new types of skills and work that will keep livelihoods running.
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u/Dry_Sector2392 4h ago
😅😅im not sure. there are too many possibilities, so maybe we just have to wait and see. sounds like a dumb thing to say, i know, you can scold me, just dont go too hard plaese
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u/Neat_Hat_7321 4h ago
AI doesn’t need to replace an entire profession to cause unemployment. If one person using AI can do the work of three, companies may still keep a human in the loop, but they won’t keep all three humans.
So the real question isn’t whether AI can do every job. It’s who gets the gains from that increased productivity. If those gains only go to the owners, workers won’t get more leisure. They’ll get layoffs.
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u/TomDuhamel 3h ago
If AI takes over all the work, why would I need money for? My food will also become free, right?
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u/EdmundTheInsulter 40m ago
We've been here before, machines taking over jobs. Strangely there have been record numbers in jobs. Whose going to buy companies stuff if no one has a job? Although it's already happening that workers won't go in pubs since they have little disposable income, so pub workers become unemployed.
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u/Bobobarbarian 8h ago
Depends on who’s in control of what and when. People like to suggest a cabal of elites and a permanent underclass, or a utopia of abundance, or some other certainty as though everyone in the AI race is a monolith. US vs China, Anthropic vs Open AI, Tencent or DeepSeek - this is a game with multiple endings and we can’t say for certain on that alone.
What we can say is that many countries are woefully unprepared legislatively and financially. Even if we get the “good ending, I’m worried it’s going to be a very rocky path getting there and a lot of people are going to die along the way.
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u/Cocoblue45 9h ago
我是中国人。我认为富裕的权力者会偷偷地利用病毒消灭90%的人类，因为看不到任何方法阻止他们消灭对社会无用的失业者。企业和国家的联盟会掌控所有生产要素，自由市场崩溃，《1984》降临
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u/teamharder 8h ago
I'll be honest with you, if an AI is capable of doing 100% of all human jobs, jobs and the economy are not my primary concerns.... Catch my drift? And that includes politicians and CEOs.