So if AI replaces all the jobs in the world that no one wants to do, what’s left for all those people who get replaced?
I’ve been thinking about that a lot for the past two years.
I think it’s inevitable that AI will replace work that people don’t enjoy doing.
This sounds harsh. But I don’t think anyone dreamt of becoming a call-center agent when they were 8 years old.
I’ve worked in a call center and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. But it ain’t the best job in the world.
It’s only a good thing that AI is doing that job. But in order for AI to really replace all the “bad” jobs in the world, we also need either better jobs or a replacement of people’s income.
That’s why so many thinkers agree that universal basic income is only a matter of time. The people building AI are actively planning for a world where work becomes optional for most people, not just some.
In this episode of The AI Brief, I talk about my vision for the future and what philosophy has to say about it.
Here are a few other things I cover in this episode:
Why the jobs AI takes first probably aren’t the ones you’d expect
What Musk and other AI builders are actually predicting for universal basic income
A live look at my publishing workflow, now fully automated after almost four years
The real story behind this month’s “AI agent went rogue and hacked a company” headlines
