Unemployment might increase, but probably not as a hockey stick. LLMs don't seem to be solving the hallucination problem enough to make them truly trustworthy. Also, any human-directed institution will need heirs for the agenda-setters and AI-checkers. We might see a revitalization of the apprenticeship model for the professions, and perhaps a return to single-income homes as the job market contracts. The mass university as a concept is probably toast though.
Yep, I think we've definitely reached Peak University. A return to single-income homes (like the one I grew up in during the 1970s/1980s) might be a neat solution both to the evaporation of paid work and the fertility crisis.
I actually think the most feminist thing that could happen would be for women to have their own AI agents to do work which they oversee that allows them an actual work-life balance. Women take commissions from the agents and tax structures incentivize family formation and child rearing.
And by ‘us’, I mean the reviled white working classes of the so-called Western world.
Here’s a thought. If we owned the AI - as a means of production (just like Marx wanted) through cooperative or mutual companies, we could use it to provide income. This income, in combination with the creative use of alternative currencies, might free us from the treadmill of debt which has defined our lives for generations.
Imagine buying a house in a small rural area and building an intentional community with others of like mind. Focussing on growing clean food, building a strong community.
I get that this probably sounds naively optimistic. But ‘we’ (the reviled white workers mentioned above) do need to start imagining a future that’s better than now.
I'm a lot better at highlighting the disease than providing a realistic cure, NOC. AI soon will, quite literally, be the means of production, and I'm all for collective ownership. Not sure that's likely to happen but it seems as if, after a mere four decades or so, the working class is belatedly mobilising in its own class interests, so who knows what the future holds? Embarrassingly, I'm a (self-hating) member of the Professional-Middle Class, but I'd be happy to be invited to join that intentional community with the community vibe and healthy food.
Unemployment might increase, but probably not as a hockey stick. LLMs don't seem to be solving the hallucination problem enough to make them truly trustworthy. Also, any human-directed institution will need heirs for the agenda-setters and AI-checkers. We might see a revitalization of the apprenticeship model for the professions, and perhaps a return to single-income homes as the job market contracts. The mass university as a concept is probably toast though.
Yep, I think we've definitely reached Peak University. A return to single-income homes (like the one I grew up in during the 1970s/1980s) might be a neat solution both to the evaporation of paid work and the fertility crisis.
I actually think the most feminist thing that could happen would be for women to have their own AI agents to do work which they oversee that allows them an actual work-life balance. Women take commissions from the agents and tax structures incentivize family formation and child rearing.
I like your thinking!
you have to stop smoking weed and reading sci fi books :P
space x just lost its next rocket and my robot vacuum keeps falling down my stairs....
Wise advice!
Righto. Roger all that.
So how do we adapt to make all this work for us?
And by ‘us’, I mean the reviled white working classes of the so-called Western world.
Here’s a thought. If we owned the AI - as a means of production (just like Marx wanted) through cooperative or mutual companies, we could use it to provide income. This income, in combination with the creative use of alternative currencies, might free us from the treadmill of debt which has defined our lives for generations.
Imagine buying a house in a small rural area and building an intentional community with others of like mind. Focussing on growing clean food, building a strong community.
I get that this probably sounds naively optimistic. But ‘we’ (the reviled white workers mentioned above) do need to start imagining a future that’s better than now.
I'm a lot better at highlighting the disease than providing a realistic cure, NOC. AI soon will, quite literally, be the means of production, and I'm all for collective ownership. Not sure that's likely to happen but it seems as if, after a mere four decades or so, the working class is belatedly mobilising in its own class interests, so who knows what the future holds? Embarrassingly, I'm a (self-hating) member of the Professional-Middle Class, but I'd be happy to be invited to join that intentional community with the community vibe and healthy food.