There is good reason to believe that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs.
They probably don’t mind that all wealth in this world will accrue to the lucky few who own the AI patents.
Artificial general intelligence, the end goal Silicon Valley technologists are striving for, is defined in the charter of OpenAI, the outfit that developed ChatGPT and DALL-E, as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
The sense of inevitability about our technological future stems from a misunderstanding of how technologies emerge and become embedded in the economy.
AI could feasibly push automation even further.
Changing the tax code, which vastly favors capital investment over hiring new workers, would level the playing field and temper incentives to automate.
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