re: Do you believe AI will ultimately be beneficial or detrimental to society?

It already is helpful, it’s even in Google searches now.
I do think short term -5 to 10 years- it will be detrimental to society due to layoffs. Like a crap ton
Eventually beneficial because companies will start to have much shorter work weeks. 3 day weeks or 4 hour shifts etc

Like all tech it will be both.

Advances in the medical field will be tremendous.

Advances in war and crime will be equally tremendous.

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Considering it has the mental capacity of Forest Gump in it's current state

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That instantly puts it in the top 10% of tigerdroppings posters.

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it will be detrimental to society due to layoffs

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I don’t think that’s necessarily detrimental. Technology replacing jobs is nothing new.

What is detrimental is:
-People are outsourcing critical thinking
-it’s becoming hard to tell truth from reality
-lack of human connection as people emote with bots more and more

Skynet tries to wipeout the human race

Awful. Its another form of misinformation that both muddies the waters of reliable information and formed opinions, and a tool for those in power to "regulate" aka control.

This is a stepping stone to full information control for a certain group of people we cant criticize, and theyll be using the hell out of it to manipulate the useful idiots to reach that goal.

Finally, its eliminating jobs already, and as it finalizes, it will obliterate even more. This is another tool to continue to rip the middle apart and let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Why do you think all these data centers are popping up? Were setting the foundations for some serious shite.

THAT is a 10. Good lord.


Sam Altman put it well when it comes to this, imo, irrational fear that AI will displace a YUGE part of the workforce. He said something along the lines of “AI won’t take jobs, people who effectively use AI will take the jobs”. In other words, if you’re in a position which could leverage a good bit of AI/automation/predictive analysis/ML, do yourself a favor and start playing with the several FREE LLMs available and familiarize with how they work, how to build agents, MCP architecture, etc.

You would be SHOCKED how easy it is to build an agent to perform some function. For instance, you could build an MLB history agent which allows you to pull any statistic on any player in MLB history. This could include game logs, minor league info, advanced stats, etc. You give the agent a basic description, give it rules, give it a knowledge base, build in the framework of expected conversations/topics, and away you go. Don’t need to know how to code, SQ/db admin, no web dev, just a plain language interface to build out what you want.

But yes, someone or some country will inevitably frick up. If AI doesn’t do it, quantum computers will nip civilization in the bud.

Youre leaning heavily into the pattern in the past that "new tech generally replaces jobs with new jobs reliant of the tech at a near 1:1 ratio".

Heres the issue, AI is much different, and it will NOT create nearly as many jobs as it displaces. You cant think its eliminates millions while creating millions of jobs using AI scripts. Itll be in the low 6 figures, if that. Wouldnt be surprised at all if it only creates a 5 digit figure of jobs while displacing millions.

Were in infancy, its going to create more jobs now but those will shrink as this powerful new tool grows and solves its own problems of needs in human input. Its already shocking how fast its progressing. Its flooding the internet w videos that many people are struggle to differentiate from reality. I cant even imagine 10 years from now. Theyll find a way to make it entirely impossible to tell reality from truth. Theyll even hide the code and likely gatekeep the best versions of AI so the public cant discertain.

The pattern of tech replacing and creating new job does evenly does not apply here, the purpose of this tool is to grow to replace as many jobs as possible. This techs purpose is unlike any tech advancement of the past.

Yes, were seriously fricked.

It will appear to be beneficial while further driving the dumbing down of society.

I'm more concerned about nefarious use of AI though, especially as IQ continues to decline.