Raw LLM Responses

I really support Bernie's humanism, bravery and dedication to representing regular working class americans. I think his warning of what could come to pass is important. However, he is taking people in the tech industry at their word as to what automation will accomplish and I think that's dangerous. This narrative that this trajectory is inevitable is being pushed by people that stand to gain tremendously from frightening and disempowering working class people. If they could they would absolutely wipe out 100 million jobs, I have no doubt. But I also think they have a lot to stand to gain from pushing that narrative regardless of the reality. Additionally, the kind of AI that is being used to automate manufacturing is not the same kind of AI that has seen tremendous recent breakthroughs. These types of repetitive jobs have already seen massive automation in past decades, separate from the recent huge advances in generative AI. It may be that recent advances will have real impact, but whereas the kind of automation he is talking about that is occurring in manufacturing is dependent on machines that always produce the same output each time they are given the same type of input, generative AI's strength is generating DIFFERENT outputs each time they are given the same type of input. This makes them extremely powerful in general contexts, but also extremely unreliable for repetitive tasks and skilled decision making alike. So are current robotics and generative AI technologies sufficiently advanced to predict the replacement of 100s of millions of jobs with any measure of certainty? I don't think so. To the contrary, current trends in advances in generative AI show strong indications of a plateau being reached in model performance, and current models are NOT capable of replacing white collar workers wholesale. This is to provide a counter argument to the narrative that Bernie is reacting to, that the future being prophesied by the tech industry will come to pass. Even at a purely pragmatic utilitarian level automation is not a free lunch. Companies like anthropic and openai operate at a loss. Their product is expensive, energy intensive, and failure prone. If their vision of AGI succeeds, and I believe it would need to to cause disruption at the scale being talked about, it will surely permanently destroy the economy as we know it. But I believe the larger danger is that we all just despair in accepting our replacement as inevitable and in so doing forget how much our mad abusers who are charting our course actually do rely on us the people they are so desperately trying to replace.