Here’s a Tom Scott video I found to be insightful, where he mentioned how new technologies that change the world sort of follow a
sigmoid curve:
Yes, AI is replacing some jobs, but as I mentioned in
this post on a similar topic I don’t feel very concerned about the long-term future.
The short term is more concerning, especially since at this very moment I am already unemployed and struggling to pay bills or find work. It does not escape my notice that both my professional fields are prime targets for disruption from AI: graphic design and web development.
To be honest I personally believe that said disruption is actually more from the secondary effect of company executives freaking out or hyping out than it is from the primary effect of AI actually doing anything real, so I feel far more bitter toward the human overreactions than I do toward the technology itself. The fact that some big moves in the industry were already shown to be premature and were (at least partially) reversed just underscores that.
And besides, I sort of feel that it’s already done the worst it can do by putting me where I am now, so that also takes away some of the dread about the future. Beyond that, I don’t know …