Great thinly veiled ad for OpenAI and this guy's book. A book which appears to be nothing more than a bunch of AI generated poems. He even says that they could have just been posted online but that they're selling through a publisher for "credibility".
Another alarmist poised to profit from the alarm. Not saying all of them are mind, just this one seems that way.
The growing jobless rate would be a cause for celebration. People who automate industries would be heroes instead of being cursed by the poor who are now out on the street.
Our values got messed up somewhere. (I'm not from a work obsessed culture though, so I expect I will be told why work is actually the greatest and noblest thing on Earth, and I will roll my eyes)
We don't have any social safety net, so today those 3% can't enjoy other pursuits - they have to scrounge around for a new job. Even if we did, The primary path to security, freedom, and prestige in our society is through industry. We have to change this before automation can stop being a dirty word.
But even bad art is an expression of human experience, and interacting with it an act of human connection. Maybe this distinction will become more clear and relevant, or maybe we'll be successfully convinced that it doesn't exist at all.
Either way though wanting to be entertained with no regard for the human costs of the entertainment is an understandable impulse but one that we should be prepared to fight in ourselves. Otherwise why not just watch a bloodsport? Likely more entertaining than AI-chum sitcoms or whatever.
But haven’t we been here before with all the other “new” mediums before?
