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My usual comment for things like this:

Some people worry about the machines “waking up”. Oh no! They will achieve consciousness! They will plot against us! They will have personality and it will be evil!

I figure we are still many years away from that and who knows? It might never actually happen.

But still, AI is a huge deal. Right now.

So many jobs can be automated. Remember COVID? How so many people started “working from home”? Well, pretty much all of that work can be done by AI. Pretty much right now. Or else in 2024 or 2025.

And driverless cars? Say goodbye to the labor category of “trucker” — which is a huge job category.

In short, there is going to be massive unemployment because simple, stupid decision-tree logic systems (that’s “AI” today) can do your job better than you can and it doesn’t sleep and it doesn’t need a weekly paycheck.

So the big problem facing this country is — what are we going to do with about 275M people who can no longer contribute their labor to our national economy?

HINT: Some people like Bill Gates want to VERY drastically decrease the surplus population.

This isn’t about when “Skynet” gains consciousness. Not at all. This is about people being worthless. Real soon.