It's really insincere to claim that AI will create jobs. We have literally no idea how society would respond, and jobs would absolutely disappear. Also, 'creating jobs' does not mean the people who lose their jobs get first dibs. Super irresponsible, but it's the AEI, so.
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"Reducing the need for labour" has many different outcomes, though - some dystopian, some utopian.
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By itself, it is a very good thing, unless society insists that you have to sell your labor to an economically viable business to be allocated the resources you need to live. There is no natural law that commands it to be this way.
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There is also the angle of increasing under employment. Any company offering AI product will have to charge high so that the employees can make ends meet. There will always be someone who will be willing to do the same job for lesser pay.
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Creation of scalable products (like B2C software) has a different economy. To succeed, you need to have the best product, not the cheapest employee. Google makes $1.2M revenue per employee. If it had worse employees, it would make less.
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