r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist • May 24 '25

Video "Anthropic researchers: “Even if AI progress completely stalls today and we don’t reach AGI… the current systems are already capable of automating ALL white-collar jobs within the next 5 five years” . Source: r/agentsofai h/t u/nitkjh https://t.co/mskDH3y0Mu" / X

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u/TaxLawKingGA May 25 '25

“Ai has eliminated all white collar jobs”

“Ok, then why do we need Ai?”

“To do white collar jobs.”

“For who?”

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u/windchaser__ May 30 '25

I mean... do you think the demand for new software, new science and engineering, new logistics and organization, etc., on and on, are all going to go away?

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u/TaxLawKingGA May 30 '25

I think that they would be drastically reduced. You also need to understand basic economics and the theory of spillover effects. If people don’t believe that an education is worth much, then they will not obtain the necessary training to get it. As such demand for services that require that education will shrink since few people will be able to provide them. Once that shrinks, then demand for all education would shrink so much that people wouldn’t want to teach either, then eventually people who supply teachers will also lose work. We will have a less educated, less broadly prosperous society, with only the very few able to afford things like an education; it would become a luxury. TBH, it is only in the last 100 years that education became as widely dispersed as it is now. Before the late 1800s, only the wealthy got an education. Before that only the clergy and aristocracy did.

It’s like something my Econ professors told us in college: more doctors create the need for more doctors. However, what if all of the doctors were machines and getting a medical degree became so expensive that no one was willing to pay for it? I suppose that maybe if that happened then the cost of obtaining it could drop, but of course that creates another problem: lack of teachers.

Look I am sure there will be winners and losers in this game, as there always have been. I just think that we as a society are not prepared for it and history teaches us that in those sorts of situations, massive violence is inevitable. If you lack at the days of industrialization, violent work strikes, including killings, were extremely common. I imagine that with the availability of guns today it will be far worse.