Kurt Lavetti

I think it's worth separating two worlds: a) Partial automation -- AI automates some stuff but not others (like a supercharged version of past technology), with wages falling for some and increasing for others. In this world, I agree completely about disempowerment. Promises to prevent job loss will be hugely politically popular, and sometimes defensible for political economy reasons. b) Full automation -- the world in a) lasts as long as most people can delude themselves into thinking they are adding value relative to a machine, which I think will last for some time: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1870884…. But once it becomes unmistakable that few people can, norms about work will shift quickly. If humans still have a say in the matter, norms about governance will shift as well -- if aligned, the machines will also be better than humans at normative reasoning and policy-making (a subset of automating everything!), so politician will be one of the jobs which is automated.

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