Artificial Intelligence takes another giant leap forward. With the latest models from the two top AI creators, it is now inventing itself. Right. It’s creating it’s own smarter self. Every few months.
It can read an entire complicated legal contract and research all the clauses for accuracy, legality and faults, make any needed corrections and be 100% correct. As a for-instance. Since it now writes it’s own software, software engineers will probably be completely obsolete within a year. My own son is a senior software architect with a fancy home and a fat mortgage and too young for Social Security. I wonder how he’s going to fare…
It’s expected that within two years the job of accountant will be obsolete. AI can do it not just better but perfectly, and blindingly faster.
“Building financial models, analyzing data, writing investment memos, generating reports. AI handles these competently and is improving fast. Writing and content. Marketing copy, reports, journalism, technical writing. The quality has reached a point where many professionals can’t distinguish AI output from human work. Reading scans, analyzing lab results, suggesting diagnoses, reviewing literature. AI is approaching or exceeding human performance in several areas. Customer service. Genuinely capable AI agents… not the frustrating chatbots of five years ago… are being deployed now, handling complex multi-step problems.”
While Technogeeks will find all this to be wonderful, those whose jobs become obsolete will think less highly of it. Every time some new automated process comes along and replaces one done manually, there’s always some people who find themselves out of work and seeking new ways to make a living, and it’s never generally a disaster. But as AI rapidly takes over more and more of the labor humans have done, and many millions of people find themselves without incomes or any way to make a living, guess what’s going to happen?
Theft, armed robbery, street assaults, carjacking, home invasions, store lootings, rampant prostitution and a rapid increase in the murder rate are what’s going to happen. UNLESS… martial law is declared and a lot of people get shot to stop it.
Of course, our government sees this coming the same as all the others do, as this isn’t going to be just a US problem. It’s going to be a global problem, it will all happen everywhere at the same time, so what’s to stop them from waiting it out in their elite vacation spots and bunkers for a few months while the rest of us kill each other off? I’ll tell you. If this were allowed, it wouldn’t be long before armed gangs ruled everything and regaining control would be a long, hard fought battle. What I see coming instead is another Great Depression, where poverty ruled the land. A lot of people died of starvation during that period, though statistics either weren’t kept or were erased as they would have been an enduring political stain. More will die this time as all those people drawing welfare while living in cardboard tents on sidewalks and in alleys, sticking needles in their arms and shitting in the gutters, are a blight no one wants and will be the first to go.
There’s going to be a serious uptick in crime and the deployment of all the Federal I.C.E. agents to kick out illegals right now is both to get them off the welfare rolls and reduce the future level of crimes. Mostly, however, it’s to prepare us all for the presence of large numbers of armed federal troops in our cities, many of whom will be hired from the unemployed obsoleted workers who will eagerly wear a gun and a badge to arrest unemployed obsoleted workers.
What will happen to the millions of people who can’t find work? The welfare system will collapse under their weight, it’s starting to now, and will do so completely before long. Here’s a clue, Iran just murdered at least 40,000 people out of the millions demonstrating in the streets for freedom and no one cares much, especially the US government that threatened Iran to stop “or else” and then says very little except to say “stop” a few more times. Life only has value when the media says so and the life of one minor TV personality’s mother current is getting vastly more publicity than those 40,000 murdered Iranians. So how much do you think the deaths of 100,000 homeless in the US will be lamented? Or the deaths of a few million illegal aliens? Or the terribly sad loss of life among all those who can’t get welfare anymore when they’re portrayed as all being welfare scammers anyway? The disasters in the poor areas of big cities. Ready for another Great Chicago Fire? This time it may be accompanied by an actually deadly virus. How does one sterilize large areas?
This isn’t about doom and gloom, this is about change. What’s about to happen, and I’ve posted on this before, is that our population is going to diminish. Mostly it’s the human trash that will be gone, because humanity is about to streamline itself into a more efficient model. There’s going to be some rough times ahead first, obviously, but the end result will be a cleaner, more efficient world.
I hope so, anyway. We will see.