I think there’s at least one missing one, “You wake up one morning and find out that a private equity firm has bought up a company everyone knows the name of, fired 90% of the workers, and says they can replace them with AI.”
Mm, scenario where mass unemployment can be framed as a discrete event with a name and a face.
I guess I think it’s just as likely there isn’t an event, human-run businesses die off, new businesses arise, none of them outwardly emphasise their automation levels, the press can’t turn it into a scary story because automation and foreclosures are nothing fundamentally new (only in quantity, but you can’t photograph a quantity), the public become complicit by buying their cheaper higher quality goods and services so appetite for public discussion remains low.
I think something doesn’t need to be fundamentally new for the press to turn it into a scary story, e.g. news reports about crime or environmental devastation being on the rise have scared a lot of people quite a bit. You can’t photograph a quantity but you can photograph individuals affected by a thing and make it feel common by repeatedly running stories of different individuals affected.
I think there’s at least one missing one, “You wake up one morning and find out that a private equity firm has bought up a company everyone knows the name of, fired 90% of the workers, and says they can replace them with AI.”
Mm, scenario where mass unemployment can be framed as a discrete event with a name and a face.
I guess I think it’s just as likely there isn’t an event, human-run businesses die off, new businesses arise, none of them outwardly emphasise their automation levels, the press can’t turn it into a scary story because automation and foreclosures are nothing fundamentally new (only in quantity, but you can’t photograph a quantity), the public become complicit by buying their cheaper higher quality goods and services so appetite for public discussion remains low.
I think something doesn’t need to be fundamentally new for the press to turn it into a scary story, e.g. news reports about crime or environmental devastation being on the rise have scared a lot of people quite a bit. You can’t photograph a quantity but you can photograph individuals affected by a thing and make it feel common by repeatedly running stories of different individuals affected.
I agree that mass unemployment may spark policy change, but why do you see that change as being relevant to misalignment vs. specific to automation?