Top AI Researcher Reveals The Scary Future Of Employment

21 Jun 2024 · 32 min
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YouTube commentary (LARRUZ) summarizing a personal post by Avital Balwit (Anthropic) about AI’s likely disruption of employment. Balwit (chief of staff at a frontier AI lab) argues that continued scaling and algorithmic progress will likely produce models that can perform most economically useful cognitive tasks, potentially ending many forms of work. Key claims: “AI is the automation of automation”; models improve in jumps as new models are trained; AI will first excel at online/remote work (copywriting, tax prep, customer service, portions of software development and contract law); manual, regulated, and intimate ‘nostalgic’ roles may persist longer. The piece also examines psychological effects of mass unemployment, the ambiguous role of material support (e.g., UBI), and suggests cultivating activities done for joy as preparation for a post-work life.

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