https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
"Not only am I an AI skeptic, I’m an automation-employment-crisis
skeptic. That is, I believe that even if we were – by some
impossible-to-imagine means – to produce a general AI tomorrow, we would
still have 200-300 years of full employment for every human who wanted a
job ahead of us.
I’m talking about climate change, of course.
Remediating climate change will involve unimaginably labor-intensive
tasks, like relocating every coastal city in the world kilometers
inland, building high-speed rail links to replace aviation links, caring
for hundreds of millions of traumatized, displaced people, and treating
runaway zoontoic and insectborne pandemics.
These tasks will absorb more than 100% of any labor freed up by
automation. Every person whose job is obsolete because of automation
will have ten jobs waiting for them, for the entire foreseeable future.
This means that even if you indulge in a thought experiment in which a
General AI emerges that starts doing stuff humans can do – sometimes
better than any human could do them – it would not lead to technological
unemployment."
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
