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I understand all the concerns about losing jobs and being left behind, but that's also what happened when the loom was invented. An entire profession gone. Looms were destroyed in protests, people died over embracing the new machine and the inventors of every new version had their lifes threatened. But imagine if we we're still hand weaving all our clothes today? Yeah maybe they would be more durable than what we have today, but you wouldn't have many clothes, and there would be a large portion of the population just weaving fabrics.
Same thing happened when threshing machines were invented, steam pumps, cranes, the printing press. History repeats itself where jobs will be lost to new innovation but look at what new jobs and careers these inventions sparked.
Its hard to see it now, but automation is a good thing. It will drive new technology where we will once again find new jobs and careers.
Believe me, as someone still getting into my career which is being threatened by AI, I'm certain there will still be work that isn't just manual labor.
You're right, it's something that is happening and could be good too. But you're also missing the point. It's the massive application of AI on all kinds of areas including social media, communications and the intrusive forms of nourish that kind of systems with your data almost every time without our consent. Without and option to opt-out or better not being involved in all that shit that consumes a lot of water and energy, and its being overestimated.