Im definitely on the side that over using AI and using it commercially seems to be bad. On the other hand, it seems like a tech that has huge potential upsides. I’m not sure we can achieve a post scarcity society with all labor being done by humans. This is where I see AI becoming a massive tool. Assuming we can pair it with mechanical means of work, not strictly digital. I know it’s a touchy subject but I want to hear your opinion. As always, if you’re just going to tell me to read more, recommend literature.
The kind of AI you’re talking about that could replace human labour to the point of making something like a post-scarcity society happen isn’t even on the horizon, and I don’t believe the llm hype has any chance of leading to it at any point. But even if it were the case, imo there’s no scenario where capitalist societies transition to a post-scarcity utopia where human labor is replaced by machine labor through technological innovation.
The 19th and 20th centuries are a history of human labor being displaced rather than replaced by innovation. People are made obsolete in their own jobs, but the fundamental threat of “work or starve” remains structural. So people who are older, already specialized and who can’t easily change occupations become atrociously poor or straight up die, and younger people find and invest their formative years in new ways to work, producing stuff that’s not yet automated.
So before you can even think about a post-scarcity utopia you need something like ubi and a socialist organization where people who get innovated out of their jobs can still live, but if you have that kind of society I think it would naturally orient itself toward degrowth and production of what is needed through human labor, rather than the kind of overproduction frenzy necessary for everyone’s labor to be continuously replaced with metal and silicium.