This is why there are certain jobs AI can never take: we are wired for humans to be responsible. Even though a pilot can do a lot of his work via autopilot, we need a human to be accountable. For the pilot, that means sitting in the plane. But there are plenty of other jobs, mostly high-earning experts, where we need to be able to place responsibility on a person. For those jobs, the upside is that the tool will still be available for the expert to use and capture the benefits from.

This lawyer fabricating his filings is going to be among the first in a bunch of related stories: devs who check in code they don't understand, doctors diagnosing people without looking, scientists skipping their experiments, and more.

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unshavedyak 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> This is why there are certain jobs AI can never take

You're thinking too linearly imo. Your examples are where AI will "take", just perhaps not entirely replace.

Ie if liability is the only thing stopping them from being replaced, what's stopping them from simply assuming more liability? Why can't one lawyer assume the liability of ten lawyers?

	▲	lordnacho 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Then there will still be lawyers. More productive, higher income lawyers. Just like with a lot of other jobs that got more productive.
	▲	observationist 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		People who think like this cannot be convinced; they're unaware of the acceleration of the rate of progress, and it won't change until they clash with reality. Don't waste your time and energy trying to convince them. They don't understand how to calibrate their model of the world with the shape of future changes. The gap between people who've been paying attention and those who haven't is going to increase, and the difficulty in explaining what's coming is going to keep rising, because humans don't do well with nonlinearities. The robots are here. The AI is here. The future is now, it's just not evenly distributed, and by the time you've finished arguing or explaining to someone what's coming, it'll have already passed, and something even weirder will be hurtling towards us even faster than whatever they just integrated. Sometime in the near future, there won't be much for people to do but stand by in befuddled amazement and hope the people who set this all in motion knew what they were doing (because if we're not doing that, we're all toast anyway.)

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pjc50 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine introduces the term "accountability sink", which is very useful for these discussions. Increasingly complicated systems generate these voids, where ultimately no human can be singled out or held responsible.

AI offers an incredible caveat emptor tradeoff: you can get a lot more done more quickly, so long as you don't care about the quality of the work, and cannot hold anyone responsible for that quality.