If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival Imagine this. Twenty years from now, if AI is capable of handling all work, how will your kids make ends meet? If you want to prevent that future, what should you be doing today? |
So, just prepare by saving money, investing and upskilling just to keep your brain sharp to figure it out when that future hits all of us.
But I think most of what is useful today to teach children (to be independent, persistent, empathetic, thoughtful, etc) will still be useful in whatever future we end up in. I think even skills that may be obsolete will probably be good for training their brain, like, perhaps speaking more languages won't help because we'll all have star-trek-like communicators, but the mental flexibility won't be wasted.
I'm not sure what will happen with higher studies, my kids are small. Maybe they'll study something and by the end of university there won't be a job market for it. But that could always happen, and some paths always had more career opportunities or less.
Beyond education, I try to save some money (invest in some global index fund) and hopefully that will help. I was always going to do that anyway, it just feels a bit more necessary now.
We’ve known about global warming for years and ignored it. People know and still buy bigger cars every year.
Pick up trucks are so huge now you can’t see the child you’re about to run over and they sell like hot cakes.
In surveys truck owners say they only care about occupant safety. They know about the issue for pedestrians, they just don’t care.
Same with shifting industrial production and jobs to China. We know these things are problems for the next generation. When it comes to purchases people don’t care.
Why would AI be any different?
b) you cannot prevent that future, because the incentives are huge and enforcement is extremely hard, at all levels, from the superpowers to the individuals.
c) besides, imagine a world where most jobs are still being done by paid humans, all knowing that their work could be done much better and cheaper by a machine. Basically a world where your daily labour isn't really necessary but just a proof-of-work to get a monthly salary. Isn't that awful? I would rather take a pay cut on my last salary and use my time in a different way.
d) how will they make ends meet? Nobody knows. It might be a combination of everything being much cheaper and/or heavily subsidized, and some form of basic income.