AI companies aim 'not to help workers, but to replace them'

afry1

And the leaders of these companies are so genuinely surprised at the fact that the people are refusing this technology. Sam Altman: “Looking at what’s possible, it does feel sort of surprisingly slow.” Satya Nadella: “For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread.”

NotGMan

It is what it is. 100 years ago tractors and machinery were replacing farm workers etc... Obviously AI is a step up since you at least needed humans to operate many machines. Some kind of UBI might be inevitable, higher taxes for large/most profitable companies might fuel it. But that's my idealistic view of it.

erelong

It's really a little of both in different doses