• MxM111@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    First of all, I do not think in black and white, as you did to the post I have answered.

    I will not deny that robots as any other new technology can and will create its challenges, but ,come on!, robots on factories were replacing factory workers for very long time. And if you look more general, 200 years ago, like 70% of population were working in agriculture, until industrial revolution with mechanization and automation replaced like all of them, so that un US now is less than 2%.

    We absolutely need AI + robots. We have aging population, our Social Security program is under danger to become insolvent because more older population and less young population (and no, another population boom is not the answer). The US manufacturing productivity (https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-labor-productivity-and-how-has-it-changed-in-the-us-over-time/) is actually going DOWN for the last 10+ years. The AI + robots is absolutely that multiplier that our economy needs for us to have great future.

    Now, I totally understand that one can completely screw up the future, and this is why we should be vigilant and vote for right politicians, advocate right policies and so on, but stopping new technology because of this fear is absolutely not what we should do.