Debate me, AI will negatively impact society.

[Fearey]

9 hours ago, Mu_ said:

Im not an expert on these matters but I do feel like there is something unique about AI and how it can have sweeping effects on so many industries at once, not just the steam engine or a single invention that impacts one industry more so than another.

For example I could try and predict how to survive right now and go into programming or robotics.  This is a 5+ year commitment just to get at a potential even playing field with the average of workers, not the top level kinda guy, and by that time those jobs are the ones best done by AI.  Or become a great knowledgeable truck driver, nope, those jobs may be noticeably impacted by self driving and robotics, accounting.... nope easily replaceable by AI, or a high level math, biology and physics major, sorry within 5-6 years it takes me heavily investing those at the mid to top will be using AI and be well above what I could achieve by then (I could get lucky or become surprisingly good, but realistic chances we are talking).

Funny enough I think the safest fields assuming we aren't dealing with a horrible economy do to this rapid change before it gets corrected, is trade industries like plumbers, hvac, electricians, builders.  

All that said, AI isn't there yet, and its just theory at this point.

I wouldn't worry about AI replacing developers any time soon. The need for knowledge workers is only going up, and we have no way of automating this beyond overly simple projects. We have nothing to indicate that that's even possible. 

It first needs to automate everything else. Arguably the only constraint there is energy production. We have to vastly enhance energy production if we are to take this technology to the next level.

Edited September 18 by Fearey