This is one thing that really scares me about automation and AI. Without a doubt, they will replace as many of the functions that humans are responsible for with automation and software as is possible. Once they have things up and running, there’s nothing stopping them from doing whatever they want and not caring about the human cost.
Surely people will have better access to health care once the system has “crashed”!
Well yeah? Once it crashes you can rebuild it properly.
Well, the people who survive can rebuild it as they see fit, anyway.
I have no reason to think that the general public will suddenly be more organized than the surviving oligarchs.
If only the oligarchs survive, they’ll quickly die off from having nobody to actually keep the world running.
This is one thing that really scares me about automation and AI. Without a doubt, they will replace as many of the functions that humans are responsible for with automation and software as is possible. Once they have things up and running, there’s nothing stopping them from doing whatever they want and not caring about the human cost.