AI advances in part because too many people don’t work, won’t work, barely work, and treat careers (where they should be applying themselves) like jobs (where they don’t).
Now that they have them, why wouldn’t employers fill in positions with robots and AI if too many people won’t step up?
Stretching back to the 80’s—at least—the West has imported millions upon millions from the third world to cover the gap in workers they foresaw. What they failed to perceive was that too few would actually work. Lots of “refugee” “doctors and engineers”—principally men in their late teens through late forties—who are neither, get on the dole, and stay there. They’re the crooks, crazies, cut-throats, and ne’er-do-wells their homelands kicked out.
Even families that immigrate into the West through programs and have a couple of able-bodies that will work bring along many more that aren’t able to work or won’t. They get on the dole, stay there, and learn to grift the system on top of it.
Unforced errors upon unforced errors…
Why would you work hard in this system? Ayn Rand wrote about this in Atlas Shrugged.