It should be a good thing but it won’t be under capitalism.
Best case scenario we either revolution everything before then or the singularity turns out to be communist.
thats how I view it too… but its also inevitable so it seems like instead of throwing a fit about AI automating our jobs we should be really throwing a fit about not having enough safety nets for that to be a good thing.
I do wonder what capitalists plan on doing when most everything is automated though. Its only a matter of time and that gives people A LOT of time to sharpen their guillotines.
the singularity is a myth made up by weird nerds. AI isn’t sentient is a masterfully marketed way of getting computers to do statistics
Sophisticated statistical learning techniques, which is %95 of what is really discussed under the ‘AI’ banner, can be incredibly valuable when utilized for ethical scientific analysis. The problem is that those techniques are incredibly efficient at identifying our almost Pavlovian responses, and social media provides the idea rapid feedback loop to fine tune methods to exploit them en masse.
Good under communism, bad under capitalism
right now, bad. Capitalism will heavily abuse it. Socialism would be better for it
It’s good and communism requires it, only capitalism manages to take “less labor produces more goods” and twist it into a bad thing.
But if I’m entitled to the surplus value of my labor how do I get any when the AI take my job and I don’t do any labor
You’d still be entitled to the surplus value of whatever other labor you do. Through central planning a socialist state can move all the people who were displaced by automation into other fields, and with the amount of hands that are freed up by automation you’d probably work very little. On top of that the commodities that are produced through automation would be owned in common and would be put towards meeting everyone’s needs, so no one will be homeless or will starve because they no longer have a job. If all labor is automated (which can’t really happen IMO) we’d still have all the commodities, yet held in common and given to each according to their need.
Because the necessary labor and the wealth are considered communally. The first half of the deal, “from each according to his ability,” means doing your part of the socially necessary labor. As automation decreases the amount of human labor required to sustain the whole of society, there’s less work required of each person while everyone still gets the other half of the deal, “to each according to his need.”
