What is the single biggest danger from AI and automation
So much is discussed about AI and the paradigm busting transformation it will create for humanity: in the areas of food , medicine, logistics, manufacture , education and much much more.
Much also continues to be discussed about human redundancies and re-training for new skills and employment.
Proponents of AI have two arguments: one that AI will create new jobs in areas yet to be defined or discovered and so the spectre of unemployment will dissipate with different employability.
The other argument ,a more utopian view, is that AI will make society truly egalitarian and that we may not even need that many jobs and instead we can pursue interests that are not necessarily economic in benefit.
Both are essentially statistical arguments: so many numbers lost vs so many gained. Statistics unfortunately has no view on Values.
By this I do not refer to economic evaluations but on how human beings perceive their purpose as driven by values
One of those values which seems to inform the entire human condition is whether an individual has the ability to create something of value.
The carpenter – maybe one of those that will be made redundant- creates value with his hands. As does the gardener. And even the DIY man made eponymous by Tim Allen.
We measure our relevance to others by the value we generate.
What will happen when we are not of value?
The Machine will not judge.
Fellow humans will.
So It Got Me Thinking 