Hasn’t that always been the case? Companies have replaced their labour with cheaper alternatives from the other part of the world for decades.

Now the only difference is that they replace you with a machine instead of a human.

> Now the only difference is that they replace *you*

(emphasis mine)

I think the main difference is that more influential people and beneficiaries of the current age are the ones feeling threatened.

I can't imagine people bringing up automating trash sorting as a problem (at least that's how I read the articles side note about workers wearing smartphone to record themselves sorting trash) if the same system wouldn't also threaten software engineers and artists.

> Now the only difference is that they replace you with a machine instead of a human.

That’s the relevant part, a training for a machine will be replicated infinitely at no cost. The scale is what matters here, that changes the whole dynamic. Instead of one worker training the one person who will replace them, you’re giving the AI companies a perfect record they will use for as long as they need it, for as many machines as they need it

I think that the main difference right now, and I think it matters, is that the concentration of power and wealth is very high today and this is going to be a real detriment to our society.