People who are happy that AI will destroy “useless laptop jobs” are not smart. Do they really want the disciplinary regime we all experienced in 2020-2023 to be imposed by machines?
When my father died, I went to Canada and broke the COVID regime. A government employee started calling to hassle me. I told her, I’m here to bury my father. I can’t quarantine indoors. And I heard her voice break. I heard genuine human compassion for my loss. I wasn’t hassled after that and could do everything I needed. She probably had to remove me from the baddie list and committed an infraction to help me.
Do we really want to have machines do this instead? Leave no sliver into which human solidarity can penetrate? We want to leave ourselves completely without options so that woke Jack Dorsey can add another billion to his fortune and install an algorithm to punish us for transgressing the speech codes he happens to find pleasing? Are we nuts?
There’s a trillion things I manage to do in my work, bypassing the impersonal regulations, because I go to talk in person to a young guy or a middle-aged woman with a “useless laptop job”. Laptops are not the important part of their jobs. That they are human is what makes things work.
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When it comes to any innovation: a new tech, rule system, war: whatever one can see everyone at a certain level arguing about is a distraction.
At least one dangerous, entirely predictable consequence for the vast majority of ordinary decent citizens lies ahead.
You may have spotted one for AI.
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The company I work for has training all week on how to use AI to build efficiency and work our way out of a job. If we do not participate, we risk not having the skills to keep our job. This is certainly an interesting time to work in corporate America.
I am curious how creative people like me, who write as a means of expressing ourselves, and who write because we need to write, will be eliminated in this robot future our culture is building. Will they build AI robots to search out and destroy us? All of this makes me want to plant a garden and live off grid.
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