The printing press also led to books changing from being something only rich people had to everyone having books. This also enabled the industrial revolution, as books made literacy worth having, newspapers, and became a great storehouse of knowledge.

I.e. it created far, far more jobs than it destroyed.

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1shooner 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

I have not heard even the most enthusiastic AI booster describe net job creation as a possible outcome. If you have any details on that prediction, I'd be interested to hear what they are.

	▲	WalterBright 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nobody remotely believed what the printing press invention would lead to. After all, Gutenberg had only a modest goal of printing and selling indulgences. He didn't understand what the printing press was good for, either. Pretty much all the jobs today did not exist before the printing press that enabled them.
	▲	lechatonnoir 18 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean... you can't think of any ways that AI could actually generate new value? Or more abstractly, of a way that Jevons' paradox can't apply in the case of AI?