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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knowing the way our country is going I would expect in the end workers will have to pay an AI tax on their income and most workers will start working 50 hours a week.

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[–] tal@olio.cafe 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wouldn't put it entirely outside the realm of possibility, but I think that that's probably unlikely.

The entire US only has about 161 million people working at the moment. In order for a 97 million shift to happen, you'd have to manage to transition most human-done work in the US to machines, using one particular technology, in 10 years.

Is that technically possible? I mean, theoretically.

I'm pretty sure that to do something like that, you'd need AGI. Then you'd need to build systems that leveraged it. Then you'd need to get it deployed.

What we have today is most-certainly not AGI. And I suspect that we're still some ways from developing AGI. So we aren't even at Step 1 on that three-part process, and I would not at all be surprised if AGI is a gradual development process, rather than a "Eureka" moment.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

and then 115 million will be needed to unwind the half-assed implementation and inevitable damage.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I.e., made up on the spot.

[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well my AI says it will take 96 or 98 million jobs, depending on what you want it say and only for $5,000.

[–] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The Senate will decide its fate.

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