The remarkable success of ChatGPT and other generative A.I. has inflamed the already roiling debate about how the rise of machines will affect workers, and ultimately shape our societies. Doomers p…
If you accept the premise, that when the day arrives AI & robots can not only do most work but are far cheaper than humans, then we are in times of revolutionary change. The logical follow-up is how will that revolutionary change translate in terms of power and political structures?
OP’s point here is an interesting one. Less educated blue-collar workers have been losing for decades now thanks to automation and globalization. Yet they’ve lacked the power to do anything about it. Revolutionary change happens when counter-elites form at the top of society. These counter-elites are made up of the educated & what OP calls “failed elite aspirants” - in plainer language people who’ve gone into debt to be educated, but now can’t get the life they feel their education owes them.
Now that AI is coming for their livelihoods we can expect their reactions to be different, but how?
If you accept the premise, that when the day arrives AI & robots can not only do most work but are far cheaper than humans, then we are in times of revolutionary change. The logical follow-up is how will that revolutionary change translate in terms of power and political structures?
OP’s point here is an interesting one. Less educated blue-collar workers have been losing for decades now thanks to automation and globalization. Yet they’ve lacked the power to do anything about it. Revolutionary change happens when counter-elites form at the top of society. These counter-elites are made up of the educated & what OP calls “failed elite aspirants” - in plainer language people who’ve gone into debt to be educated, but now can’t get the life they feel their education owes them.
Now that AI is coming for their livelihoods we can expect their reactions to be different, but how?
Have you read much of this fellow’s other work? It sounds fascinating.