A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Exactly, AI is only scary if you need a job to survive.

    If AI takes work from us, we should be freed by not having to work, not doomed to starvation.

    The current economic status quo is entirely unequipped to deal with the next couple of decades, and the options for progressive change are dwindling.

    I’m absolutely not calling for revolution right now, but the glacial rate we’re evolving our economy is going to make it inevitable or else we’ll be left with some kind of Mad Max hellscape before the century is out.

    • streetfestival@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      I also find AI taking other people’s jobs depressing. Whenever I purchase something or need customer service, I’d always rather interact with a human than AI