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What Will Remain for People to Do? The future of labor in a world with increasingly productive AI. (knightcolumbia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What paid work might remain for human beings to do if we approach a world where AI is able to perform all economically useful tasks more productively than human beings? In this paper, I argue that the answer is not ‘none at all.’ In fact, there are good reasons to believe that tasks will still remain for people to do, due to three limits: ‘general equilibrium limits,’ involving tasks in which labor has the comparative advantage over machines (even if it does not have the absolute advantage); ‘preference limits,’ involving tasks where human beings might have a taste or preference for an un-automated process; and ‘moral limits,’ involving tasks with a normative character, where human beings believe they require a ‘human in the loop’ to exercise their moral judgment. In closing, I consider the limits to these limits as AI gradually, but relentlessly, becomes ever-more capable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Real shit im glad you're able to find a few diamonds in the rough -- BUT from the fashy techbros you mentioned to Corpo wide mainstream forcefeeding it, absolutely a net negative.

In what way are they causing more harm than they were with crypto, or with gamification, or with social media, or with whatever tech fad came before that?

The point is that tech bros and conman have always existed and have always been shilling overhyped shit. That's a reality of the world we live in, not a new invention of AI.

And by "few diamonds in the rough", I assume you mean a literal entirely new class of problems that computers were unable to solve for before?

Truly, I love new tech. Always have. I wanna love AI...but as things stand I come to the inevitable conclusion that it is tossing gas on the fires that are the climate crisis, on social and economic inequity and so, sweet summer child soooo much more. I'm far from a doomer.

Just because you bookend your doomer statement with 'i love tech' and 'im far from a doomer', doesn't make it not a doomer' statement. You literally start it by saying that your pessimistic conclusion is inevitable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lmao refusing to drink your technocratic poor excuse for "utopian" vision does not make one a doomer

idc if you watch it. this is me not granting you the engagement

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Those who can't express simply, don't understand it.

Figure out how to make your point in less than 45 minutes or don't bother making it.