AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
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Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.

The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.

Nate Soares, winner of “most sunshine in book title” and co-author of AI critique If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies suggests “people should not be banking on work in the long term”. Math tutors, cinematographers, brand strategists and journalists are quoted by the New Yorker, freaking out.

The consolation here is that if you are among those panicking about being forced into the permanent underclass, you are already in it. Inherited wealth makes more billionaires than entrepreneurship, the opportunity gap is growing; if your family don’t have the readies to fund your tech startup, media empire or eventual presidential ambitions, it’s probably because they were in a tech-displaced underclass, too.

  • CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one
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    2 days ago

    People without money are replaceable. People with money are not. What a stupid statement. MONEY IS WORTH. You could be the most talented engineer in the world, the modern Einstein in science. Unless you have capital or create capital, you’re an insect who will be squashed. I love the idea but AI and automation are about to make 90% of the world’s population obsolete. And NOBODY is training LLMs on UBS or universal healthcare LMAO we’re cooked and reporters know it, but there’s no money in saying it, so even now the media is trying to milk the last possible money from this dying system.

    I never did expect it to be Orwell x Terminator, but here we are. Enjoy the boot on our neck forever! I figure we give it like 6 years before eugenics come back because there’s no need for so many proles in the new automated world. We’ll just be resource drags that would be better replaced with renewable machines. Let’s say 2030 before the mass killings begin. Great job MAGA.