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Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week
(www.the-express.com)
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That's possible.
That being said, John Maynard Keynes also made a similar prediction:
NPR Planet Money:
The specific quote:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Basically, had we decided to leave our standard of living where it was in 1930, we could have worked two days a week. But...that's not generally what people wanted to do. We wanted to take advantage of new stuff that people produced to appeal to us, jack up our standard of living.
In the past, we've always managed to come up with new, appealing things that wind up making use of that new productive capacity. Climate control or anime video games or more space per person in housing.
Is it possible that in the future, we will be unable to make use of scarce human labor to provide something that humans want? Maybe! And that's something to think about. But simply the fact that human labor is finite, that things that involve human labor can be used like a status symbol, might itself fill the problem. We shall see.
One thing that I do agree with is that transition from the world of today to a world with AGI is going to be a very disruptive transition.
OK but Maynard James Keenan said that some say we'll see Armageddon soon; certainly hope we will. I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three ring circus sideshow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan