(Note: This is an American take, and uses software jobs as the primary example, but a lot of this applies to other jobs)
Yes, well said - with one caveat: "Money and social status" is subtly but crucially different from "livelihood". You correctly identify the group of people whose lives are affected, but lump those people along with CEOs and AI companies under the umbrella of "money and social status" in your summarization, which maybe undersells the role of the masses in this equation.
The software job - traditionally one of the few good career options remaining for a large chunk of Americans - is falling. There are many different reasons, and AI, while not the apocalypse, is a small but crucial part of it. We need to get over the illusion that a large piece of that fall consists of wildly luxurious incomes reducing to simply cushy incomes - "boo hoo", we say, sarcastically. But the majority of software folks are going from "comfortable" to "unhappy but livable", while some are going from "livable" to "not livable", while others are no longer employed at all. There were already too many people across the job spectrum in these buckets, and throwing another gigantic chunk of citizens in there is going to eventually cause big, bad things to happen.
We need to start giving a shit about our citizens, and part of that is avoiding the implication that just because something disruptive is inevitable, doesn't mean the affect isn't devastating and we should just do absolutely nothing about the situation. Another part of that is avoiding the implication that the average person can just successfully change careers without enormous suffering. We can ease, assist, REGULATE (which the party in power would like to make illegal), etc. It's important to understand that none of that means "stopping" AI or something ridiculous like that.
We need to start giving a shit about our citizens.
A third time: We need to start giving a shit about our citizens.
And sorry, most of this was not directed personally at you. Just the first note about your wording.
Yes, well said - with one caveat: "Money and social status" is subtly but crucially different from "livelihood". You correctly identify the group of people whose lives are affected, but lump those people along with CEOs and AI companies under the umbrella of "money and social status" in your summarization, which maybe undersells the role of the masses in this equation.
The software job - traditionally one of the few good career options remaining for a large chunk of Americans - is falling. There are many different reasons, and AI, while not the apocalypse, is a small but crucial part of it. We need to get over the illusion that a large piece of that fall consists of wildly luxurious incomes reducing to simply cushy incomes - "boo hoo", we say, sarcastically. But the majority of software folks are going from "comfortable" to "unhappy but livable", while some are going from "livable" to "not livable", while others are no longer employed at all. There were already too many people across the job spectrum in these buckets, and throwing another gigantic chunk of citizens in there is going to eventually cause big, bad things to happen.
We need to start giving a shit about our citizens, and part of that is avoiding the implication that just because something disruptive is inevitable, doesn't mean the affect isn't devastating and we should just do absolutely nothing about the situation. Another part of that is avoiding the implication that the average person can just successfully change careers without enormous suffering. We can ease, assist, REGULATE (which the party in power would like to make illegal), etc. It's important to understand that none of that means "stopping" AI or something ridiculous like that.
We need to start giving a shit about our citizens.
A third time: We need to start giving a shit about our citizens.
And sorry, most of this was not directed personally at you. Just the first note about your wording.