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How Daron Acemoglu, one of the world's most respected experts on the economic effects of technology, learned to start worrying and fear AI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, a capitalism driven cataclysm, not an AI driven one. When your economic model fails because of technological advancement, you blame the model, not the technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"There's a fair likelihood that if we don't do a course correction, we're going to have a truly two-tier system," Acemoglu told me. "A small number of people are going to be on top — they're going to design and use those technologies — and a very large number of people will only have marginal jobs, or not very meaningful jobs."

So one group owns the systems that produce the output, while the other gets exploited by said systems.

Yeah, gee, where have I heard all this before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

dude’s probably just worried about maintaining the status quo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And once we have solved the climate crisis I am sure we will get right on this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol the future is gonna suck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

insert grandpa Simpson quote here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can we please just not have a world ending catastrophe for ONE FUCKING YEAR.