In California, human mental health workers are on strike over the issue of their employers using AI to replace them.
Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare
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I suspect from now on we will see more and more strikes and protests like these. I'd guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.
Most of us instinctively feel sympathy with the striking workers - deep down we know AI/robots will be coming for our jobs one day too.
But there's a paradox here. AI tends towards what economists call zero marginal cost, in plain language - near free.
What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.
This requires some proper wealth distribution though so that the wealth generated by automation is not only landing in the pockets of the few ultra rich that "own" this technology. As long as the actual benefits only serve a small elite class this conflict is just going to grow.
Yes. The logic of al these changes with AI & robotics being able to do most work, is that some sort of socialism is the only economic system that will work in the future.
I'd guess by 2030 or so they will be a widespread global phenomenon. By that point, self-driving cars will rapidly be replacing most driving jobs too.
That is a terrible guess, and it isn't even remotely close on the scale of decades.
What if AI Doctors as good as humans were nearly free & every human on the planet had access to their expertise. Surely, that is something to go on strike for - not against.
What if you read too many scifi novels with AI while ignoring how politics were changing in the real world and have willingly mistook a vehicle of brutal class war (that has a MASSIVE carbon footprint) being used by the ultrawealthy to force everyone back into feudalism as a magic technological savior of our futures?
Do you realize how easy of a mark people like you are? You got played hard.
That is a terrible guess, and it isn’t even remotely close on the scale of decades.
No. It's based on how technologies are adopted, which tends to follow an s-curve.
Level 4 self-driving cars are already on the road in China & the US.
Lol, yup and it is going so well.
The only reason self driving cars are legal on US roads is we actually hate pedestrians as drivers in the US and we don't really give a shit about traffic safety.
I don't understand the corlation between hateing pedestrians (fully agree) and the self driving car
There are actually two ways to make a self driving car.
which do you think tesla is choosing?
No, you are living in a fantasy land for babies where your lazy deeply flawed visions of the future are more important than the blazing reality tearing everything down right now as we speak :)
As long as it exists under capitalism, every human on the planet won't have access to it. It will cost nothing for the owners of the technology to run but they will charge a fee to use it.
There's 2 ways this could have gone down : CEO profits or government doing their job and managing society. USA chose maximum profit. Again.