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Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term (fortune.com)
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Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And so were the Conveyor-Belt and the Steam-Engine.

Progress in production makes our lives better and raise our standard of living. It also frees up labour for other new Sectors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The problem is that each of those examples is a single thing. It solved a particular problem and moved jobs away from that one particular task.

But AI is, by definition, general purpose. It doesn't solve a particular task it solves all the tasks, or at least tries to. So it theoretically removes labor from everything. Which in and of itself isn't a problem, but society needs to be adapted to deal with the fact that most people won't have jobs through no fault of their own.