> Most anti-AI arguments can be dispensed with by recasting them in terms of the broken-window fallacy. This is certainly one of them.
Could you explain how and what fits the broken-window fallacy here? Is it the AI abolitionists? (I know at least one person who violently hates AI and anything relating to AI and firmly believes that there is absolutely no place for AI or LLMs anywhere in the world and that any usage at all for any reason whatsoever is utterly deplorable. I don't talk to this person since they tend to flame at others for using or talking about AI for any reason.)
The people working in CS now, as you originally pointed out, are already under strict orders not to say anything an AI chatbot wouldn't say, and are not empowered to do anything the company wouldn't empower an AI chatbot to do. So why are we employing humans to do a chatbot's job? Just to give them something to do?
That's where the broken-window fallacy comes in. It's not just a matter of paying someone to break all the glass in town to make work for the glaziers, it's like responding to the invention of cheap shatterproof glass with the same flawed zero-sum reasoning.
(I'm rate-limited so can't reply, but my position is basically that 100% unemployment is a good thing, not a bad one. We can't get to a post-scarcity society by doing things the same way we've been doing them, or by retrying the same alternatives that have failed before.)
IME, simple labor farms (that you get paid actual money for, anyway...) are hard to find in the US because of like, worker protections. Are there any entry-level jobs besides CS that can be done with essentially no thought or reasoning whatsoever? I'm not asking this to be insulting, I'm saying there is a type of person who could be good at that type of CS but doesn't have the skill, attention, or energy to do much of anything more. Those people still deserve a way to be useful to the world, I think.
I keep seeing cashiers replaced by self-checkout machines at stores, fast food jobs might be too complicated for certain people (like me - I couldn't do it), places like say the Apple Genius Bar require you to know what you're doing, etc. Maybe I'm super naive and first-world by missing something super obvious, but if I am then maybe I could learn something today.
Could you explain how and what fits the broken-window fallacy here? Is it the AI abolitionists? (I know at least one person who violently hates AI and anything relating to AI and firmly believes that there is absolutely no place for AI or LLMs anywhere in the world and that any usage at all for any reason whatsoever is utterly deplorable. I don't talk to this person since they tend to flame at others for using or talking about AI for any reason.)