How would it create low-skilled workers? Read non-knowledge workers. It would need robots, which are not only expensive but are material –and we’re already using more material resources than we should. Something material can’t scale at the same speed as something digital. It is very unlikely that humanoid robots will be cheaper than cheap service labour (there’s a reason why they haven’t been automated yet, unlike factory work).
Also, being human can be a comparative advantage in itself. There’s lots of machines that do coffee, yet there’s still a pleasure in going to a coffee shop or having something handcrafted. As machine created products become more common and human created more expensive, people start fetishising human made products or services.
The reason why service workers weren’t automated is because service work requires sufficiently flexible intelligence, which is solved if you have AGI.
Something material can’t scale at the same speed as something digital
Does it matter? Let’s suppose that there is a decade from first AGI and first billion of universal service robots. Does it change the final state of affairs?
It is very unlikely that humanoid robots will be cheaper than cheap service labour
The point is that you can get more robots if you pay more, but you can’t get more humans if you pay more. Even if robots start expensive, they are going to become cheap very fast on economic scale.
How would it create low-skilled workers? Read non-knowledge workers. It would need robots, which are not only expensive but are material –and we’re already using more material resources than we should. Something material can’t scale at the same speed as something digital. It is very unlikely that humanoid robots will be cheaper than cheap service labour (there’s a reason why they haven’t been automated yet, unlike factory work).
Also, being human can be a comparative advantage in itself. There’s lots of machines that do coffee, yet there’s still a pleasure in going to a coffee shop or having something handcrafted. As machine created products become more common and human created more expensive, people start fetishising human made products or services.
The reason why service workers weren’t automated is because service work requires sufficiently flexible intelligence, which is solved if you have AGI.
Does it matter? Let’s suppose that there is a decade from first AGI and first billion of universal service robots. Does it change the final state of affairs?
The point is that you can get more robots if you pay more, but you can’t get more humans if you pay more. Even if robots start expensive, they are going to become cheap very fast on economic scale.