If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

riffraff

Mildly worried. But I think most of what is useful today to teach children (to be independent, persistent, empathetic, thoughtful, etc) will still be useful in whatever future we end up in. I think even skills that may be obsolete will probably be good for training their brain, like, perhaps speaking more languages won't help because we'll all have star-trek-like communicators, but the mental flexibility won't be wasted. I'm not sure what will happen with higher studies, my kids are small. Maybe they'll study something and by the end of university there won't be a job market for it. But that could always happen, and some paths always had more career opportunities or less. Beyond education, I try to save some money (invest in some global index fund) and hopefully that will help. I was always going to do that anyway, it just feels a bit more necessary now.

Lio

It’s just another “don’t look up” issue. We’ve known about global warming for years and ignored it. People know and still buy bigger cars every year. Pick up trucks are so huge now you can’t see the child you’re about to run over and they sell like hot cakes. In surveys truck owners say they only care about occupant safety. They know about the issue for pedestrians, they just don’t care. Same with shifting industrial production and jobs to China. We know these things are problems for the next generation. When it comes to purchases people don’t care. Why would AI be any different?

dyauspitr

If everyone’s out of a job, the world will figure it out

throw310822

a) it's not twenty years from now, it's much less than that. b) you cannot prevent that future, because the incentives are huge and enforcement is extremely hard, at all levels, from the superpowers to the individuals. c) besides, imagine a world where most jobs are still being done by paid humans, all knowing that their work could be done much better and cheaper by a machine. Basically a world where your daily labour isn't really necessary but just a proof-of-work to get a monthly salary. Isn't that awful? I would rather take a pay cut on my last salary and use my time in a different way. d) how will they make ends meet? Nobody knows. It might be a combination of everything being much cheaper and/or heavily subsidized, and some form of basic income.

rahuljha0403

Those who can do something about it, they won't do anything as it's a power/money game for them. Those who care about it, they can barely do anything. So, just prepare by saving money, investing and upskilling just to keep your brain sharp to figure it out when that future hits all of us.

GreenLightGo

The wealthy owners of tech companies and other businesses will keep maximizing profits, just as capitalism demands. I think my kids will be learning skilled trades instead. AI will never replace builders or electricians.

speedgoose

I wouldn’t mind a society in which I don’t have to work to live happily and comfortably.

euroderf

It will be like Zardoz.

password54321

Many young people already can't afford houses and are in a terrible job market. The ladder got pulled from them a while ago and would love a revolution. Look at the people they idolise, it is either Elon (usually guys) or Mamdani. They want change.

Aozora7

I find it unlikely that governments will just let majority of people starve to death. Both due to unrest and because someone has be able to buy stuff for the economy to function. UBI seems inevitable to me. But also, I'm an antinatalist for unrelated reasons so would not have children either way.

loveparade

I'm more worried about TikTok than AI when it comes to future generations.

p0w3n3d

AI will be used for total surveillance in the first place. So totalitarian governments, welcome on in

Kim_Bruning

This is a perennial question Scenario 1: The future technology will be capable of handling much of current work, but we'll invent new forms of work, with more stress and higher salaries. Salaries for people in professions that couldn't be replaced will also go up to match, making bespoke work even more expensive. Scenario 2: We let machines do all the work and declare a communist utopia. (Bonus: we give them names that are low in gravitas) So far, scenario 2 hasn't happened yet, but you never know.

cyanydeez

anyone who looks at the growing fascism in American and across the world isn't worried about "AI" such a weird self centered bullshit.

spicyusername

Why would we want to PREVENT that!? We should just be paving the way for the necessary social safety net so they don't have to work and won't starve. Not throw the baby out with the bath water. Who WANTS to have to work!? "Don't invent the replicator because nobody will have to make tea. "

kotaKat

I'm not worried, because the kids keep getting more handouts up front than our generation(s). Remember, young adults - student loan relief was socialism as we hand out hundreds and thousands of Trump Accounts across the nation for the same thing to the next generation.

illwrks

How many things from 30 years ago are still working without issue or regular maintenance. Things will always change, there will always be jobs. AI will be a tool to use, good robots will be expensive, cheap robots will breakdown, everything will require some form of sales, management, maintenance etc.

zkmon

The change between now and 20 years into future won't be anything spectacular than the change that happened over the last 20 years. So, look back. How different was 2006? For me, it feels like it just happened last year. So, don't get excited. The prophecies that begin with "X years from now,..." - never happen.

tim333

It's worth thinking about economic systems where everyone gets funds and a good time - a bit each according to their needs, but something that could actually get voted in. Traditional socialism doesn't work because it's bad at wealth creation but if the AIs are producing the wealth you can redesign it.