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Honestly, we're having the same revolution for white-collar jobs that automation made for blue-collar ones.
Like with chess, we're going to reach a point where AI isn't just 'as good as humans,' but it will be many times superior to the point humans need to make their own competitions excluding AI in order for them to be fair.
Yeah sure, enjoy that glue pizza.
If my surgeon was booting up chat gpt I'd just euthanize myself to save them the trouble.
Yeah, people say they don't want AI driving cars while AI has better safety records than the average human.
People also fought back against having machinery to automate production.
You might want to look into the "Luddites."
I hope you can admit you're wrong when the time comes, but I genuinely expect you to just pretend you never stuck your neck out in the first place.
Here's a wrench for you: the Luddites were 100% right