brickyardjimmy

Are you pleased with some of the questions you've been getting here today?

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How do you plan to manage the animosity that most human beings feel when AI companies promote technologies that aim to replace human labor with robotics? How will people continue to afford AI picked, packed and delivered groceries, when they no longer have employment?

I agree with you that technology can be used for good or ill. But that's precisely what has me nervous. I trust AI. I just don't trust humans. And AI doesn't perform any functions unless humans create it for a purpose. One look at the state of the internet today tells me that my intuitive suspicion of AI is well founded. To the leaders and programmers of consumer facing technologies, human life has reached a commodity status where one is, more or less, interchangeable with the other. We're rapidly becoming a natural resource to be harvested and the days in which technology companies are creating products and services to actually serve individual people better are long gone.

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I have no idea what your real intentions are but you are already talking about something that will take away ordinary labor jobs from people and for what? For a more efficient delivery system of food? Efficiency is the dream of engineers but it doesn't always suit biological life.

As an individual in the middle class, I feel terribly outmatched by the amounts of capital that others possess. Is all of this secreted wealth putting pressure on value to the extent that my puny salary and savings is being diminished at a faster pace than ordinary inflation? Because it very much feels that way. In other words--what is the impact of concealed fortunes on the lives of ordinary people (who barely have onshore accounts much less off shore ones)?

Anything that can be measured by quantitative measures alone is, by definition, a trivial question.