Posted on 06/04/2025 7:24:34 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
A computer science professor from Oklahoma State University is warning that artificial intelligence could trigger a massive population collapse, leaving Earth with just 100 million people by the year 2300. And it wouldn’t happen through nuclear war or robot uprisings, he says. Just pure, relentless obsolescence.
“It’s going to be devastating for society,” said Subhash Kak, author of The Age of Artificial Intelligence, in an interview with The Sun. “I think people really don’t have a clue.”
Kak believes that while robots will never become conscious, they will replace most human jobs, including those in law, education, and even relationships. That widespread redundancy, combined with the high cost of raising children, could convince future generations to stop having kids altogether.
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If you have kids that are going to be graduating college in 10+ or 20+ years, unless they are into programming robots, they will be doomed. Oh no wait......AI will program robots. The competition for whatever few and dwindling crappy human-staffed jobs that remain will be ferocious. They will need a Ph.D. in advanced coffee to get even a phone interview for a 80-hr a week job at Starbucks for min wage.
Meanwhile your puppet politicians are talking about diversity and gender equity at the workplace. And corporate tax cuts and cutting interest rates to "stimulate growth".
I've been feeling a little obsolete lately.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734667/
“You are obsolete.”
There’s an alternative scenario. All the automation, AI, and robots could create untold wealth for every human on the planet at very low cost. What if we needed only 10% of today’s workforce, but the factories could produce everything we want and need at very low cost?
So what if people don’t work? Can they find fulfillment and happiness without work? Maybe people would like to have even MORE children.
I have faith in God. The same type people believed in the thousand year Reich or the ultimate Communist victory.
Oh Wow
A new Paul Ehrlich idiot, this time his name means “what?” In Russian.
How ironic.
Uh, if AI makes Hoomans obsolete, who they gonna sell they junk to? The rabbits?
And the 100 million left over…they’re gonna live in robot built compounds and do what, massacre the desperate masses outside the golden gates?
BS. This apocalyptic crap has been spewed before. Make the tool the servant of men, not our master.
I’ve often thought that when AI really becomes established, that we will then have a socialist form of government with a base income for all adults. Then, the adults can take their base income and do little or nothing, or seek ways to earn income beyond the base. And, there will still be a small number of jobs.
““I think people really don’t have a clue.””
The Tech professor can include himself in that group. AI will take over jobs. We’ve know that for decades long before the latest AI buzz word. But the timing is uncertain because it costs a lot to tool up for such a transformation.
So yes this revolution is coming but that no one knows when it will kick in real hard.
“population collapse....by the year 2300”
Lolololololol
Like anyone will remember this knob’s prediction
I’m all for robot labor if only for the reason that the Dims will have to shut up with the “Who will pick the crops or clean the toilets?”
Bkmk
“Then, the adults can take their base income and do little or nothing”
We have a lot of people in the inner cities doing this and that isn’t working out very well.
I find it interesting that the soi-disant creatives, such as artists and writers, didn’t give a flying fig when robots replaced my warehouse job or OCR my data-entry job but now that AI is affecting *them*, the Truly Important People, it’s an issue.
Establish a robot tax. They can pay the Soc Sec of the workers they put out of jobs.
Work is a Biblical concept.
Luke 10:7 "Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you, for the laborer deserves his payment."
Proverbs 22:29 "You see a man skilled at his work? He will stand in the presence of kings; he will not stand in the presence of obscure men."
When we're all obscure, we lose value and meaning. My father, dying of pancreatic cancer, was bored to tears not being able to work. He was outside tending his yard, working on his favorite car, and trying to stay busy, because it was his fulfillment in life. This after he raised three boys.
I will work for as long as my mind lets me.
“Luddites Part 2: Bigger and badder than ever. We’re taking names a pulling fuses!”
We are not against progress, but against injustice! KL
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