With AI starting to actually supplant jobs, something sad has just occurred to me:
I foresee our (the US) government (and probably others) restricting the development and deployment of AI systems that would supplant human jobs, merely for the sake of ensuring people are employed.
I think it's sad because it would present a real opportunity to advance our society significantly.
Based on our past history it seems unlikely to happen. Any country which institutes such policies risks falling behind. Also who wants to be branded a Luddite?
The lesson you should be taking away from the luddites is not just that they didn't foresee that there were long term benefits to the technology, but that they violently opposed the progress. The potential for violence is the lesson. Get rI'd of large portions of the popukation's means of making a living by replacing their jobs with ai and there will be violence.
The process of replacing jobs with ai needs to go slow enough that the risk of large scale violence is minimized
I foresee our (the US) government (and probably others) restricting the development and deployment of AI systems that would supplant human jobs, merely for the sake of ensuring people are employed.
I think it's sad because it would present a real opportunity to advance our society significantly.