I think that’s another aspect to the AI job killing a lot of people overlook; what kind of jobs will be left? What kind of rights and benefits will we have to give up just because we’re meant to feel grateful to have any sort of job at all when there are thousands competing for every opening?
I am thinking of Capitalist Realism and of author Jason Reynolds who said in a recent interview: “If people can imagine racism, they can imagine a world without racism.” (roughly translated by me from a interview)
So much of the space and world we live in is because we/some people/I decided to be there. And I don't mean the means by which I get through the day. I mean something like AI. Someone said “This is a good idea, it is going to make me rich.” And not “This is a bad idea, it is going to fuck over so many people.”
The above quote is from Did AI kill my job? a series of testimonials (?) about AI taking out jobs one by one. I found out about it because Joanne McNeil edits it and she wrote a great book about self-driving cars called Wrong Way.
What jobs will this create? I can see very little. I currently don’t have any faith that this will get better at any point in the future.