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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

Luddites, you lot.

Every technological change led to disruption and change and obsolete whole industries, both in "manu-facturing" (literally L. "production by hand") and services - horse-and-buggy / pony express transportation to telephone switch operations etc.

Human workers have been replaced by robots and cobots, automation and computers for a lot less time than Industrial Revolution replaced manual labor, yet most of the people who want a job have had one.

For example, 3D-manufacturing, additive and reductive, as well as specialized robotics, have significantly improved the process and production times while reducing the need for human "brawn" in both manufacturing and service industries, as well as making it less expensive amortized over time.

I know, "this time is different" because this time "they are coming for white-collar jobs"... but the doomers (including those who have advanced the technology) told us that it was "different" all those times as well. And they were somewhat right - real progress is made by technology, not the politicians, especially ones who try to "stop or slow down the doomsday"... like Elon Musk recently suggested... for others, not his own "AI" development.

The point is that laws will stop no one else nowhere else from technological progress - which, as usual, brings with itself and can be used for good as well as bad.

New "industries" and services, adopting "AI" will come up, that you have no idea about yet, same as using technology before freed people for more productive endeavors.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-10 07:06 AM
Maybe trading our manufacturing and agriculture for desk jobs pushing numbers was a bad idea.
Too late now, people are complacent to pay $150 for a 55" HDTV. There is no way they will pay $1500 for the same thing.

That sounds awfully like "America First / MAGA" - "bring manufacturing and agriculture(??) home!" - this is exactly how Trump got so many of formerly reliable Democratic "identity politics" voters to abandon increasingly elitist (20%) "progressive" party.

The idea that "we" (the US government? the "rich"?) "offshored" manufacturing and the reason for our "problems" is that "we" (the people) no longer want to pay $1500 for items that cost less than $150 to produce somewhere else has been debunked many times over - it's called "pricing yourself out of the market" and "Money goes where it's welcome and stays and multiplies where it's well treated."

Damn those "globalists"! "Bring manufacturing home!" "America First"! "MAGA!"

Howard Lutnick's "army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones - that kind of thing is going to come to America" is not "coming to America" - it's a fantasy of the times long past by the "globalism deniers" and believers in Trump Org "Central Committee economic planning" - it plays on the voters' economic illiteracy and ignorance of history, and putting the "blame" on one or the other party / President / "the rich/elite" / "greed" for natural progress and adoption of technology.
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