I asked someone this question before and they said it was a really stupid question and I’m not sure why so thought I would ask it here…

What’s going to happen when AI becomes really advanced? Is there a plan for what all of the displaced people are going to do? Like for example administrative assistance, receptionist, cashiers, office workers, White collar people. Is there going to be some sort of retraining program of some sort to get people cross-trained into other careers like nursing or other careers that have not yet been automated? Or are people just going to lose their homes, be evicted and is there going to be like some sort of mass eviction and homelessness downstream effect because people can’t find any work?

  • HobbitFoot English
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think that will be the big worry. The big worry is going to be authenticating.

    We are already at a point where deep fakes can fool a portion of society. What is going to happen when that ability becomes easy and cheap?

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Trusting your sources has always been a problem. Newspapers have always been able to lie and it is up to the consumer to know the difference between the tabloid and the rest.

      I don’t think there is that much of a difference between lying in print and lying in video.

      • HobbitFoot English
        4·
        4 months ago

        You’ve at least had organizations with some prestige on the line. Now you don’t even have that.

        • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          That is a problem and I don’t have a solution for. It is tricky balancing free press and letting the rich just say whatever the fuck they want, but none of this is a new problem and I do believe that we can find a way to figure it out.