Sai Krishna D.

On the subject of AI and jobs: Hypothetically, if all software development were to be automated - I want to emphasize that we are _nowhere_ close to that goal - and all software engineers such as myself are out of work, it is not like human beings will have nothing to do. The problem is purely economic - how do people afford all the goods that pour out of automated factories that employ no workers? There are two possible solutions: 1. The price of all the robot made goods and all the AI-made and AI-supported software would drop massively and be close to zero or zero. Breathing air costs us zero and we don't complain about it! 2. The remaining things humans do, may get paid well - as an example, taking care of children, home cooked meals, nursing sick people, priests that minister to people, people who take care of soil health, water health, crop health and cattle health (we used to call them farmers), forest restoration specialists, local live performing musicians and so on may get paid much more and that circulates income widely enough for people to afford the goods pouring out of highly automated factories. To state it differently, IF (again, a big if) robots and AI automate all production work, the remaining work humans do like taking care of children would pay very well in terms of purchasing power of those now-ultra-cheap or free goods. This is fundamentally an economic distribution problem, a problem of political economy and not purely a technological problem. One key part is for governments to crack down on monopolies, particularly tech monopolies. Only that will ensure that the prices of goods reflect the very low cost of production arising from AI and automation. There will be at least one country in the world that would get the political economy right.