Opinion: The AI we should fear is already here https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/21/ai-we-should-fear-is-already-here/
AI detractors have focused on the potential danger to human civilization from a super-intelligence if it were to run amok. We should indeed be afraid — not of what AI might become, but of what it is now.
Will AI be allowed to work increasingly to displace and monitor humans, or steered toward complementing and augmenting human capabilities, creating new opportunities for workers?
These choices need oversight from society and government to prevent misuses of the technology and to regulate its effects on the economy and democracy. (We need to) ..recognize the tangible costs that AI is imposing right now — and stop worrying about evil super-intelligence.
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There are a number of conflicting issues buried here. The main issue has to do with the question of why humans need jobs or why these jobs are even needed in a tech driven society. The two top issues are the need for the "job" for a sense of self worth and the need to have a sufficient income. The article mentions that the job "problem" existed when "off shoring" or swapping work overseas for jobs at home Humans displacing humans that is congruent with the issue of AI displacing humans. The issue at hand is the real question of why jobs are needed which becomes amplified by inserting AI. The problem is societal and seen also when the idea of a UBI or universal basic income becomes a real possibility globally as part of the needed shift. It's not the AI.
Sajai Bose: 25 July.. i personally would not be happy to get UBI instead of earning my living (which is no doubt, a pain). so, although i would have very much preferred “...to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...” i also know that "there is no such thing as a free lunch" in capitalism. so i'd rather keep my job, and
if they want to take that away, im not going to like it.