DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a 'fundamentally labor replacing' tool
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Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The problem is that each of those examples is a single thing. It solved a particular problem and moved jobs away from that one particular task.

    But AI is, by definition, general purpose. It doesn’t solve a particular task it solves all the tasks, or at least tries to. So it theoretically removes labor from everything. Which in and of itself isn’t a problem, but society needs to be adapted to deal with the fact that most people won’t have jobs through no fault of their own.