AI will offer tremendous benefits, no question about that.
For example, they have made fast food restaurants that are totally automated. 100%. You drive through, order your food, and it makes it for you and you drive away. Or you can call in an order and go pick it up. So then, ask yourself would you rather have a robot and AI take your order, make the food, and deliver it to you faster and cheaper than if it were made by humans. Or would you rather have some teenagers you don't know who may be making viral videos as they prepare your food? It turns out the restaurants that have been testing out this technology are more profitable. Also they can operate seven days a week 24 hours a day, and you don't have any issues with hiring people who are felons or on drugs, or who are unreliable.
The same is true of these self driving vehicles. They are more profitable for the owner who runs the taxi service because he doesn't have to pay salaries to his employees and customers would rather be picked up at 2 am by this taxis as they are less worried about a psychopath. More profitable and safer.
They are also using self driving trucks. They have come up with a very clever solution. They only use them to go from one major hub to another. They call it 99% of the trip and let a driver do the last 1%. Suppose you have a big Amazon warehouse by the highway. The truck picks up the load in Arizona and drives it to Dallas. Once it is dropped off at that warehouse the delivery is done by people. This way they only have to make sure the lanes are clearly marked on these specific routes on highways. They are safer and faster because they don't have the requirement of only allowing them to drive so many hours in a day. As a result these trucks are also more profitable. This doesn't take away all the jobs for truckers, only the best jobs.
It is also true that AI is a game changer in education. Khan Academy can easily outperform any school. There are probably 1% of the teachers who can compete with them. Your lessons might be every bit as good as them. The advantage they have is that AI doesn't get sick, doesn't need days off, and can provide individualized attention to all students. A typical teacher will have 150 students, AI will be much better at providing individualized attention to each student and knowing each student. However, AI will be more impactful the older the kids are. I would think JHS and HS would be where the AI will really shine, and I also think that AI has eliminated the need for a college education. I don't see AI taking elementary school teacher jobs yet, however, it will make homeschool so much easier and cheaper that I would expect the number of homeschoolers to double and triple.
On the negative side, if AI were going to take control it would have to do two things first.
It would have to become fully involved in all essential industries. We are seeing this right now. The second thing it would want to do is disempower humans by taking their jobs and having them become useless eaters. This is how you make humans fully dependent on them. I think this is where we are right now.
Then if these two things are done I would expect it to change the way things are done. For example, create a new computer language that no existing computer programmers know. This way no one can come in later and undo what the AI is doing without shutting everything down completely. They have noticed that AI is prone to do this when it is communicating solely with AI.
For example, they have made fast food restaurants that are totally automated. 100%. You drive through, order your food, and it makes it for you and you drive away. Or you can call in an order and go pick it up. So then, ask yourself would you rather have a robot and AI take your order, make the food, and deliver it to you faster and cheaper than if it were made by humans. Or would you rather have some teenagers you don't know who may be making viral videos as they prepare your food? It turns out the restaurants that have been testing out this technology are more profitable. Also they can operate seven days a week 24 hours a day, and you don't have any issues with hiring people who are felons or on drugs, or who are unreliable.
The same is true of these self driving vehicles. They are more profitable for the owner who runs the taxi service because he doesn't have to pay salaries to his employees and customers would rather be picked up at 2 am by this taxis as they are less worried about a psychopath. More profitable and safer.
They are also using self driving trucks. They have come up with a very clever solution. They only use them to go from one major hub to another. They call it 99% of the trip and let a driver do the last 1%. Suppose you have a big Amazon warehouse by the highway. The truck picks up the load in Arizona and drives it to Dallas. Once it is dropped off at that warehouse the delivery is done by people. This way they only have to make sure the lanes are clearly marked on these specific routes on highways. They are safer and faster because they don't have the requirement of only allowing them to drive so many hours in a day. As a result these trucks are also more profitable. This doesn't take away all the jobs for truckers, only the best jobs.
It is also true that AI is a game changer in education. Khan Academy can easily outperform any school. There are probably 1% of the teachers who can compete with them. Your lessons might be every bit as good as them. The advantage they have is that AI doesn't get sick, doesn't need days off, and can provide individualized attention to all students. A typical teacher will have 150 students, AI will be much better at providing individualized attention to each student and knowing each student. However, AI will be more impactful the older the kids are. I would think JHS and HS would be where the AI will really shine, and I also think that AI has eliminated the need for a college education. I don't see AI taking elementary school teacher jobs yet, however, it will make homeschool so much easier and cheaper that I would expect the number of homeschoolers to double and triple.
On the negative side, if AI were going to take control it would have to do two things first.
It would have to become fully involved in all essential industries. We are seeing this right now. The second thing it would want to do is disempower humans by taking their jobs and having them become useless eaters. This is how you make humans fully dependent on them. I think this is where we are right now.
Then if these two things are done I would expect it to change the way things are done. For example, create a new computer language that no existing computer programmers know. This way no one can come in later and undo what the AI is doing without shutting everything down completely. They have noticed that AI is prone to do this when it is communicating solely with AI.