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AI could create a 'Mad Max' scenario where everyone's skills are basically worthless, a top economist says
(www.businessinsider.com)
This economist is telling me they never fixed their own plumbing.
There's theoretically nothing hard about plumbing.
It stands to reason that we ought to be able to automate all plumbing repair quite soon.
Unlike this economist, I've enjoyed a delightful spray of educational water, more than once, highlighting the joy of discovery of one of the many more nuanced aspects of home plumbing.
If there's one thing I've learned over and over, it is that however complicated I think some aspect of the world is, it is actually at least slightly more complicated than that.
I find it particularly evocative when I happen to learn this lesson while I am literally "all wet".
Robots may become delightful-but-stupid helpers to many more roles, any day now - even plumbers.
Perhaps someday robots of various jobs may even become delightful while even not-too-terribly-stupid.
But thinking that all subject matter experts will be adequately replaced by robots is incredibly naive.
I personally consider that belief "all wet".