I’m turning into a conspiracy person!

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I think I might be losing it.

So the last few years I was starting to worry about things with regards to AI. I’m talking about thinking things I’ve seen from films coming true and how this IS (not if or when….that’s nuts right?) going to affect my life.

The crazy part is the government side of it, just for the record, in the past I’ve voted both labour and conservative so I’m not a hard left or right person. When the election was looming and labour was clearly going to win, Sunak gave his speech and in it, he said along the lines of radical changes in the next 5 years. When I heard him say this my internal voice jumped straight to “the government knows something we all don’t” like a feeling, and I also had the feeling it was to do with AI and our lives changing.

Now Elon has basically launched I,Robot and all the other gadgets from the film, I find myself worrying about all this and that things are moving faster than I’m wiling to acknowledge.

The main two questions I would like opinions on is;
1, If AI was to explode onto the scenes and into our lives and take over the majority of the UK jobs….how will we as a nation earn money?

2, if we can’t earn money because robots have taken most of our places, would money still be the main currency or do you think it would be something else, and if so what?

I Know, I know, but I can’t stop thinking about it in an unhealthy way….i will seek help.

How do you know you’re even real? If you believe Elon we are all just living in a simulation. I’m personally more worried about global warming and reaching the tipping point where we descend back into the dark ages.

Can AI clean toilets? Get a job doing that.

Universal Basic income I hope
I work with youth mental health. AI doesn't concern me
Prob will make intake forms, statistics, applying for grants/bids, calendar maintenance easier for me tho
At the moment you still need to command AI. And know how to feed it info etc so there will be jobs around managing the robots and what not

To be honest I’m not to familiar with Elon and his theories, more that my own are beginning to sound a bit eyebrow raising. The main mouth dropping moment is all the shit he has just launched. I though when a robot was actually invented, it would move a bit clunky, very robot like, but actually, it moves a lot more fluid than I thought so it must be more advanced than I thought the stage that we was at….which was shit robots and still 10-20 years away from half decent ones.

Maybe I need to go to bed and stop thinking about all this.

This robot can apparently clean your home with no problem, including walking your dog, babysit your kids and mow the lawn along with other stuff….that’s crazy!

Sounds good to me!

I'll take one

Also I did hear about AI coming into a school in Liverpool, the pilot sceme was very successful apparently…..who would have ever thought a teacher could be replaced. As a child these things were unimaginable….now they are happening!!

Well it’s like anything. If it’s used as a tool to help further the human race and support us then the sky’s the limit. Sadly im sure the super rich are already looking at ways to exploit the tech and use it to further enslave the little worker ants like us.

When the world goes to shit I’m sure the rich will use AI to create a nice safe haven for themselves.

I live for the present.

Absolutely no point in worrying about what "could" happen, I'll concern myself with it IF it actually does.

When computers arrived, they took a lot of people’s jobs. My dad, for example, was a typesetter. Qualified as one after a six year printing apprentice. It was a skilled manual trade. Then all of a sudden it was something anyone could do in an instant. There were many other trades similarly affected.
But there wasn’t mass unemployment. Some were unlucky and had to go from skilled to unskilled work. Others were lucky and learned new skills in other industries. Others learned to utilise computers in their existing industry to do entirely new things that make us more productive as a society.

I suspect that that’s what will happen with AI. It won’t make us all completely redundant. Even if it makes some jobs completely redundant, there’ll be other jobs, some new jobs etc.

I have worries about AI, particularly around disinformation. But ultimately it serves nobody (especially not tech billionaires) for society to crumble etc. There needs to be stability to keep us all buying stuff of Amazon and paying for those Teslas and X subscriptions.

Can you imagine how good schools would be if an AI robot did enough to let the teachers do things that robots never could?

As a child of the 70s, teen of the 80s, we were told that we would have much more leisure time and minimal working due to computers. I'm working 40+ hours a week.
Predictions and reality don't always tally.

I don't worry about what I can't control. I just live in the present.

The rich will have the robots to clean and do their gardening. The rest of us grunts will just get on with life as normal because we won't be able to afford them. Most people can't even afford to adopt heat pump systems let alone Teslabots.

I get it OP. Lots of potential societal change via some medium most of us don't understand. Given its pottery limited potential at the moment I wouldn't worry too much about that change taking place quickly - the reason there might be only one of these robots is for demonstration, that's how science and innovation works. Remember when Google glass came out to much fanfare? Do you see people wandering around with these things on their faces, so many years later? It doesn't happen in a linear fashion, no one can predict what will take off and become affordable. Except we kind of can. Things related to defence, sex and advertising appear to be the ones that move the fastest, in my opinion as a watcher on.

My husband yesterday started telling me he wants a contingency plan for when climate change causes societal collapse, which could be in the next 20 years. I understand climate science and even then was like, whaaaat? He reckons the tipping point is sooner than we think, ecosystems will collapse, and we'll have to live a subsistence lifestyle.

I would absolutely not have a robot babysit my kids.

TV is total crap these days, so I'd welcome the humans v's Skynet war just to relieve the monotony.