Raw LLM Responses

The thing is that there are those in society who would gladly take us there, or at least start us down that path. Companies that could conceivably replace some or all of their workforce with the AI that's going to be available in a few years if not already? They're almost all run by people who'd gladly do that to increase profits. That their profits ultimately won't exist if no one is earning money to purchase their products/services with? That's lost on them. Or they think it will happen anyway either if they adopt AI themselves, or not. Very little in capitalistic societies happens that doesn't prioritize short term profit over not doing long term harm. Companies will gut themselves to save money in the short term and boost someone's bonus or the stock price temporarily, even though it means they've done irreparable harm to their long term prospects. The folks making those decisions plan to leave the company or cash out their options long before the bad consequences of their short term profit decisions start to manifest. And is it any wonder companies view things like the environment and climate change with the disdain they do? What CEO is going to sacrifice his companies profits in order to not contribute to global warming when the bad consequences of global warming won't really take hold until long after the CEO is dead?