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CMV: People who view AI as a solely positive advancement, are naively disillusioned.

EDIT: As a comment pointed out, disillusioned is likely not the right word for the title. "Naively optimistic" would be better phrasing. Thanks.

After reading a number of arguments and debates online, I've become a bit of a pessimist in relation to the advacement of AI. I'd like to lay out some of the arguments I've heard, my initial reaction, and hope to generate some discourse on any number of the points in no specific order. This is in regards to upcoming AI within the next few decades, not the current standard we are able to use.

***-*** ***AI will only evolve how people do their jobs, not replace them completely.*** ***If it does, they can just get new jobs.***

While I agree a select few jobs will see improvement with AI assistance, I feel its far too hopeful to expect companies to not focus on the bottom line. Leading to handfuls of layoffs as a machine that can do 80-90% of the quality at thousands of times the rate pushes all but the top performers out of an industry. When this is widespread throughout multiple industries, there won't **be** any other jobs for people to switch to that aren't hard labor. For a business to remain competitive in the space, they will need to transition to a more automated work force to keep up. With the a high supply and low demand of workers looking for jobs, the ones that remain can offer near nothing in compensation.

***- AI will create new jobs for people to educate and train themselves in.***

I do not believe the rate of jobs created to jobs lost will be a 1:1 ratio. Furthermore, what's to stop many of these new jobs from being automated not long after they're created by better AI?

***- AI will usher in societal safety nets such as UBI.***

This may be more likely in Socially Democratic countries, but in the U.S. where socialism is demonized in some political spheres, laws to assist a growing poverty class will be highly contentious. Lobbying to prevent corportations from paying an AI tax for displacing high amounts of workers, that could feed into some form of UBI, will be rampant.

***- AI will end capitalism***

I sort of agree with this at a slightly unrealistic and completely doomerist level, corporations entirely take over, no longer beholden to workers labor to make goods. They hire private miliatries to hold order and lavish in their small pockets of excess and wealth. I see this as a far more likely outcome than a fair and equal socialist society. This is probably my weakest thought, based more in fear and disdain for the vast swathes of croneyism that exist today.

***- AI will remove the need for people to work.***

If the ruling class lessens their hold on the reigns of power, this is possible, but unfortunately dependent on the former question. Why, exactly, would they give up their power to allow the plebians to be on equal footing? Additionally, AI on a large scale is likely very expensive. A bill that the upper 1% could foot, but would leave out much of the middle and lower class.

***- Humans and AI will integrate to form something new and powerful.***

Similar to the above, this is likely not going to be cheap. As with most transhuman ideals, it's likely not feasible for widescale deployment into each and every human on earth. Who do you decide gets implants? When? Why? Do you create a new caste of have and have-nots with this technology?

***- AI increases accessability to skills and other artistic mediums.***

I believe this devalues art and nuanced digital skills. Hand crafted items may retain a sort of novelty value. Art and design skills are often impressive because you can recognize the time and effort someone put into them. Creating something by hand and wishing to share it will cause it to be easily be copied by numerous tools. Potentially devalueing the novelty of it from thousands of AI created clones. What is the point of pursuing an artistic interest if everyone can do it and any unique style you come up with is quickly adapted and perpetuated?

I would like my view changed on any number of these because I want to view technological advancement as a positive force. One that will truly allow humans to become better and focus on higher pursuits. I consider myself moslty a realist with some optimistic takes and would like to be shown I may not be thinking entirely correctly on some of these points.
gpt
It seems like pretty much all your points can be boiled down to: *"AI will take jobs"*

And it will.  But that's how progress works.  The printing press put scribes out of work in the 1400's.  But books and literacy became accessible to all.  The power loom put weavers out of work in the 1700's.  But clothing became more affordable for all.  The internal combustion engine put horse breeders and carriage builders out of work in the early 1900's.  But now we have more powerful and efficient means of transport.  

Progress comes at a cost to a few, but everyone reaps the benefits.