I am wondering whether us folks in the IT space are missing things about how the real world out there functions with those predictions.

As long as we do not hand over our collective decision making power to the machine god, which I don't think is a good idea and am not sure is even possible, the world out there is at this moment still shaped by humans, with other humans, for humans.

I have this feeling that there is more about society and economics than efficiency. I have right now people I know that work in jobs that could have been automated for many years to a very high degree. That is even without AI.

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muvlon a day ago | parent [-]

> As long as we do not hand over our collective decision making power to the machine god, which I don't think is a good idea and am not sure is even possible,

Counterpoint: This is not only possible but has effectively already happened. From the outside, the current trajectory is indistinguishable from humanity serving the AI, pulling all possible resources out of literally everything else in order to burn them on AI R&D, training and inference.

	▲	bertmuir a day ago \| parent [-]
		You could say the same of cash crops, but probably wouldn't say so to argue that we have already given our collective decision making power to corn. I think the bar is much higher - something like "AI runs our political and social institutions" - the economic institutions it's involved with currently don't meet that bar.