The first AI “stealing” humans' jobs war will be fought over autonomous driving.
And it’s getting quite spicy
The most popular "settlement" will be cities selling a small number of autonomous medallions for $25,000 each year (~$3 a ride), over many years.
Those fees will be earmarked to pay for unemployment and retraining of human drivers
China is far ahead of us on autonomy, and they have frozen permits for self-driving over unemployment concerns
The CCP doesn't value human life; fuck, they ran over their own children with tanks in Tiananmen Square.
They're hardcore murderers who will use torture to control their citizens from using a VPN or reading the wrong book.
But the CCP is very sensitive to worker protests. They will delicately smooth those issues over, and they have with limited self-driving permits.
America doesn't care about people protesting; people protest losing the McRib here.
[ disclosure: I’m a huge fan of self-driving, and I’m invested directly/indirectly in almost all of the providers globally. I saw this slow train coming since the DARPA challenge ]
I have unlimited empathy for folks losing their jobs, especially older folks who might not recover from it — I've watched this struggle with family members.
It’s brutal for a person who worked for 30 years to be tossed aside by a society they helped build.
Can you imagine being a livery driver for 12 hours a day for 20 years and your prize is being replaced by a robot?
That's really depressing.
As such, I am a fan of creating a soft landing the displaced (and tens of millions will be), while this technology is thoughtfully rolled out to save lives.
You can actually be empathetic, reasonable and not dogmatic in a complicated situation like this.
And you should be.
You can judge a society (and a man) by how they treat the poor, the disenfranchised and the people who are simply down on their luck.
Today powerful folks get a kick out of not having empathy, because it plays on the pods and in the ballot boxes.
This is a historical blip, I can assure you. Jesus taught us the way, as did many other enlightened individuals like the Founding Fathers. ❤️
@grok@EmmaVigeland I’ve seen what these people call genocide. It does seem to convince young people and low iq voters
Vigeland sounds like an irrational bad-faith propagandist
@grok Can you provide sources and articles on US DOJ and congressional probes are examining his funding networks for potential financial crimes and FARA violations?