Most AI layoffs will be white collar jobs. Voting/party blocs that have large blue collar bases won't care and have already been dealing with similar pressues, e.g. NAFTA and such, for decades. So there's going to be a strong sense of "haha now it's happening to you like it happened to us in the 80s and 90s." It won't be so bad. Cities may become cheap and fun again.
"... they could pass laws establishing and funding retraining programs that teach workers how to work alongside AI systems"
Computers were billed as the entryway to the future to the masses in the 90's and 2000's. So we got things like "send everyone to college" and ITT Tech. That didn't work, but a lot of money was wasted and a few people made a lot of money. This will be a repeat.
To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!
Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)
And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.
Most AI layoffs will be white collar jobs. Voting/party blocs that have large blue collar bases won't care and have already been dealing with similar pressues, e.g. NAFTA and such, for decades. So there's going to be a strong sense of "haha now it's happening to you like it happened to us in the 80s and 90s." It won't be so bad. Cities may become cheap and fun again.
"... they could pass laws establishing and funding retraining programs that teach workers how to work alongside AI systems"
Computers were billed as the entryway to the future to the masses in the 90's and 2000's. So we got things like "send everyone to college" and ITT Tech. That didn't work, but a lot of money was wasted and a few people made a lot of money. This will be a repeat.
To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!
Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)
And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.
Rant over.