The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization , is the effect it will have on employment. Large language models already seem poised to automate large fractions of the work in certain industries , and the technology is only getting more capable.
There are, broadly, two schools of thought about this issue, what we might call the optimists and the pessimists. The optimists note that we’ve been automating work for hundreds of years, and it has yet to result in sustained, large-scale unemployment. Certain jobs, like telephone switchboard operators or dockworkers , get automated […]
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