If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not?

Unfortunately, that isn’t what’s happening. AI isn’t “producing” anything that people need to survive. It’s just replacing people. We aren’t seeing any net gains to society that would be able to support so many people no longer being needed in the workforce.

If they were training AI to produce food, build housing or anything that people actually need more of right now, I would say you are absolutely correct to assume that people would be just fine with this transition. But that’s not what they’re using AI for.

Optimistically, AI could and definitely should be used for those things…and the logical conclusion would be to implement a form of UBI so that we can all benefit from this. But do you honestly see that happening?

I don’t. And I think that’s what OP is also seeing. We aren’t ready, as a species, to make that transition yet. There isn’t even the slightest intention on behalf of our current leadership, of providing for an entire population of jobless people. They will ultimately be left to fend for themselves. And as it stands right now, society isn’t equipped to function with that kind of excess population.

It’s not necessary about their “value” to society. People need to eat in order to survive. That means having a way of supporting themselves. Having no way of supporting themselves means a lot of people are going to die.

I’d say that’s a net negative to society.

And the problem runs deeper than “retraining” or “upskilling”. With the emergence of technologies that replace human workers…there will simply be a massive excess of unemployed workers hitting the market. Period. Skills or not. Where are they going to work, when there are now ten people applying for every available job?

And this is why right-wingers want teaching this shit banned in schools.

Lol! What the actual fuck? No.

How do gorillas, chimpanzees and humans all exist at the same time?

This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.

Compared to the Cybertruck’s design, I don’t think having a LIDAR antenna on top of the car is so bad.

“LIDAR is so lame! Who needs to be able to accurately map their surroundings, when our cars can get confused by a shadow passing across one of their lenses, just like humans do? It’s so much more efficient to be blinded by fog, or low light conditions.”

• Moron Musk, for some reason.

But I thought they just made it illegal to regulate AI? Oh, wait…that was just for the states. Fuck those guys.

Depends on how much bribery and extortion Trump is willing to use, in order to change their minds. One way or the other though, the US is on its way towards losing all positive influence in these countries.

How does anyone consider him a “genius”? This guy is just so stupid.

I don’t think he knows what the word “peace” means.

It’s only weird until you realize they aren’t talking about your “personal” security. They couldn’t care less about you.

Do these come with carbide tips?

Exactly. Just like they promised ten years ago, and then never delivered. Now we’re moving in the opposite direction.

Fuck the Liberals. We gave them a win, and the first thing they do is fuck us over. Again.

And he was wrong,every single time.

Sounds like somebody’s got toxoplasmosis.

Can we just not?

A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

It’s also the ultra rich that decide whether or not solutions are worth pursuing. And it seems like they’ve decided not to bother anymore.