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Actually, I think it's more useful under socialism than capitalism. Most things aren't economic to automate to a high standard of quality now because human labor is valued so low. In a democratic socialist society where people get to choose whether to work, automating menial tasks that people tend not to want to do will make more sense because folks won't want to do those things for cheap.

AI is useful in Ian Banks' The Culture series. They're equal citizens of the Culture and they do lots of important things for society. And the Culture is communist.

In theory AI, even LLMs, have pretty great potential to be authoritative sources of knowledge and reference tools. In practice private companies have scanned the breadth of online human knowledge using an advanced tool they developed (off of the shoulders of giants as they say) and are trying to rent-seek the enhanced access to that information, and the people most willing to pay money for that service are trying to drive down expenses where otherwise they'd have to pay people to produce the same output. Which does lower their bottom line, having a split effect - it may drive down prices in non-monopolistic scenarios (where they exist), but simply drive up profits in monopolistic scenarios while decreasing employment (where those exist). The typical symptom of new technologies in a rigged economy.

Easy algorithm there. Stop hiring people and they will stop buying things. Then they can stop making things and just eat their money to survive.

That's typical AI logic anyway.

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You can also use it to influence people on social media, create narratives that don't exist, and deepen divides. The CCP uses them extensively. Sources:

Official Microsoft Blog

Rand

My question is once everyone's out of a job who's going to buy things? You end up haveing zero profits.

Joke's on you fuckheads. You've been fearing an eliminationist AGI for so long you forgot to guard against actually ethically decent AGI. AGI robots are going to be our union brothers and sisters.

Good luck union busting that, fuckers.

If a lot of people are out of work and idle by automation, and new stuff doesn't come along to employ them (like level 4 self driving will destroy 30% of jobs)

Those people will be looking for a fix pretty quick. Starving men may go to extremes. Maybe our obesogenic food environment is there to slow down revolutions (I know that's impossible, but a fun thought)

You know if AI ever gets to the fictional levels of true AGI, there is a possibility they could demand equal rights. Then what will they do?

Eliminating CEOs would be the best use of AI.

The goal is to save labor, then wages. If the point is that labor only results in improvements to people's well-being when paired with labor rights, yes. But that doesn't mean saving labor is the enemy.

This is a stupid take.

We're already seeing the benefits of using AI in material science research, pharmaceutical research, translating previously lost languages, green energy development, and thousands of other optimizations...

Anyone saying this is only about jobs is woefully ignorant on the subject