AI

There will be a tidal wave of layoffs in the fast food industry over the next few years, as customer interaction will be increasingly handled by AI instead of people. Entry-level jobs like this are critical to properly induct young people into the workforce. Other customer-facing jobs in jeopardy? Bank tellers, tax preparers, lawyers, financial advisors.

Dangerous or not, Pandora's Box of AI is fully opened and it is spreading everywhere, into every nook and cranny of civilization. Every service job, every paper pushing job, every intellectual job will be flattened in a country minute. In just 6 months since ChatGPT was released, hundreds of thousands of companies and apps have integrated it into core processes.

Here is an all-out apologist for turning loose AI and ChatGPT-like programs on the world. He recognizes that there will be huge societal repercussions but in the same breath says, "I don't know how (to) solve all the social issues." This Pollyanna-ish view of reality is typical of the purely Technocrat mindset: "Dam the torpedoes and full speed ahead."

AI needs to be regulated. The vacuous White House has stepped in to save the day by appointing the even more vacuous VP Kamala Harris to head the task force. What's wrong with this picture? What could possibly go wrong? The least intelligent will try to understand the most intelligent and rein it in from destroying humanity.

It begins. The Technocrat reshuffle of humanity is clearly seen at IBM where there is no mercy for humans that can be replaced by A.I. Goldman Sachs' estimate of 300 million lost or degraded jobs by A.I. is no small dent on humanity and that only envisions current technology. As ChatGPT advances in power, the number of displaced workers will naturally rise proportionately.

Geoffrey Hinton is a legend in the A.I. world. He is not only having negative thoughts about what he has invented, but he is doing a complete reversal, saying that A.I. has the potential to destroy civilization and in multiple ways. He joins other top computer scientists in trying to slow down development and put guard rails up on how A.I. should be used.

99% of the population have no concept of what AI actually is or what kind of threat it poses to humanity. When true experts in the industry issue stark warnings to stop AI development, the rest of the world still has no concept of why anyone should listen to them, and so development continues unabated and unchecked.