“I am more excited to figure out how we can charge people a lot of money for a really great automated software engineer or other kind of agent than I am making some number of dimes with an advertising-based model.”
Some people will argue this isn’t replacing humans, just creating additional jobs for AI, and the human ones are safe. Somehow, I doubt it.
Also, Meta & Google are hardly making ‘dimes’ from selling advertising.
I’m normally very pro capitalism but I’m worried that this time really is different to previous technological revolutions. Most people in the West work in office jobs now, and many of them are vulnerable with this technology. If this plays out like it could, and the majority of office workers are no longer needed, we’re going to keep redistribution on a scale never seen before. This is nothing short of a political and social revolution. Such a transition could be quite violent.