I would imagine sound engineers would be an easy AI job swap..
I know the last 6 years I spent before retirement doing contractor software QA testing will be totally replaced by it..
Need an AI tax to fund the huge UBI $$$$ needed to keep food and electricity flowing into the newly unemployed and basically useless and not needed..
https://news.sky.com/story/the-40-jobs-most-at-risk-of-ai-and-40-it-cant-touch-13447013Look at that list. Know that there are tons and TONS of jobs not listed here (only so much pages space) that are of similar level that are also toast.
The problem is, unlike the Industrial Revolution that took a couple of decades to complete, this is going to take months. Neither government nor people will have a chance to adapt to this before it is a nightmare. There will be no time to retrain hundreds of millions before they are effected.
And you can wring your hands as much as you please, there is no stopping it. Your thoughts on taxation and UBI is what people are going to have to think about. There is no stopping it, the best strategy now is to start planning how to mitigate the downside. If there is no stopping it, focus on harm reduction.
It is going to completely up-end society. All your quaint legacy ideas of money and taxes and private property are going to be challenged. The old rules you believed in the before-time will vanish. The phrase adapt or die will be on your mind every waking moment from the President down to the lowliest Receptionist and everyone in between.
On the other hand there will be a few who are made fabulously, unimaginably rich off this transformation. 15% will become obscenely wealthy, everyone else will eat Solent Green.
Only the top 20% of performers in every field will be kept. All else will be replaced by AI at 1000th the cost. The difference is pure profit. The next couple of years will probably be a horror show. Corporate Hunger Games and everyone desperately claws at keeping a job. It won’t be fair and it won’t be fun.
However, eventually I think AI will be an enormous boon to humanity. Our horizons just expanded exponentially. I no longer compare AI to the printing-press. AI is more fundamental than that. It is the invention of fire.
It’s just that the next 20 years are going to be sorta horrific. The old civilization will have to go though some wicked birth pains, but it will eventually produce a new civilization based on completely different rules.
Welcome to the Singularity.
