Inability to address the impact of AI on job displacement and security risks

Signals over time

3 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 0 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “Money doesn't work that way though. There are plenty of jobs people would like to get paid to do, that doesn't mean someone needs to psy them to do it. I'm well aware that if at some point AI is good enough to replace me as a software engineer then I won't have a job. I don't expect a company to continue to pay me simply because I enjoy it if there are cheaper options out there. Math is no different.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “> Sam Altman has repeatedly said that he doesn't want AI to automate everything and that AI will destroy jobs and bring different, new types of jobs. Sam Altman says a lot of things, most of which seem to benefit Sam Altman. And Google used to tell me that they wouldn't be evil. Facebook probably said some noble-sounding nonsense at some point, too. > Why do you deserve to be paid higher wages when it can be done easily and better by something else? I mean, this is exactly what happened to the Neanderthals: We could do every job better than they could, and now there are no more Neanderthals. So I wouldn't like a future where two companies make machines that outcompete humans at every job. Which is why I say we can adapt to this, but only if it stops advancing soon.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “> If anything modern humans' most emergent quality is their inability to deal with any serious problem. Yes. If this problem had come up in, say, 1956, it would have been dealt with. The generation that fought in WWII had a low tolerance for bullshit, and corrupt or incompetent leaders. The nearer term worry is not AI wiping out humanity. It's AI wiping out jobs in bulk. That looks likely at this point. After that, it's AGI empowering individuals or small groups to cause trouble on a scale that previously required a nation state. AI assisted hacking is working all too well. Fortunately AI can help on the defensive side, and holes are being plugged in bulk. There's a risk on the bio side, but people in the bio field seem not to be too worried about it. Humanity has been very lucky in some ways. One of the Manhattan Project physicists, discussing the unreasonably difficult problem of isotope separation, remarked that maybe someone will figure out how to do this in the kitchen sink. Nobody ever did, or if they did, it was buried very well. The amount of specially built industrial plant needed to separate uranium is huge. That's the moat for nuclear prolifer”

  Hacker News · frustration