Look to the industrial revolution for reference

The industrial revolution increased manufacturing capacity and output. The economic effect was that manufactured goods became cheap and abundant.

AI promises to reproduce the impact of the Industrial Revolution, but the effect will not be on textiles and crafted goods - it will be on what we consider white collar and knowledge work.

Looking forward, it's scary. Looking back, it will seem absurd that teams of people were required to do something that is entirely automated, or controlled by one person.

The problem is not the tool but the economic and political conditions - who profits? Who owns the tools and who owns the profits?

The industrial revolution created a class of capital owners who amassed more wealth than ever before. Computers and then the Internet did the same thing. AI promises to do the same again.

And each time culture shifted and jobs were invented and workers were further removed from their work. In the case of textiles, one factory could out-produce hundreds of thousands of weavers. But that technology didnt free them of labour - it made their labour worthless.

The AI issue is a policy issue that must deal with ownership and the distribution of all the wealth produced by these labour-saving technologies.

Imo