Ask the Gulch!

Sorry, mankind will amount to drones with very few doing actual thought and even fewer using reason or having any degree of ambition. Anthem: will the individual become passe? Will thought, creativity, and ingenuity become criminal? The term idiot savant will no longer be a condition but a description of the vacuous minds feeding at the allotted teet and happily working each moment of every day to ensure the slop comes from the spigot.

Lord, I wish I never wrote my novels so I didn't have to recognize these sign posts. But hey, lets cheer as we dance into the fire.

AI is why the Deep State believes that most honest innocent people
and small businesses are unimportant and genocide is the goal.
How best to be rid of those pesky humans who still understand the
Bill of Rights and might be able to fight for their rights?
Perhaps a plandemic and vaccine with deadly side effects.
Perhaps a nuclear war against countries who are tired of the
financial and banking cartel's stealing from everyone else to
benefit themselves.
AI will be used to enslave, not to create freedom.

What optimism allows anyone to think that the ignorati and corrupt in government wont regulate this dream into the same mush that they have regulated the current pre-AI economy into? This unregulated government is the problem.

All fine and dandy i suppose for those who think that the standard of living will not be affected by a dumbed down labor force.
Tradesmen, such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, HVAC, mechanics, pipe fitters, etc, and the general handyman repair man will still be needed. Have anyone tried to hire a General contractor lately? Long, long wait times just to be scheduled. - robots are not going to hang cabinets, repair or troubleshoot electrical wiring or change out a circuit breaker, remodel a kitchen, install heating ducts in existing walls, plumb in fixtures in the basement, and repair the goof-ups that the robots made.
Secondly, education teaches, supposedly, how to think. Low test scores indicate that students today, don't know or understand critical thinking. I, for one, am not in favor of AI tending to my needs. I still want real intelligence and not artificial intelligence, when I hire a contractor.

And how much of this is pure posturing by a venture capitalist trying to round up more funding (that isn't his) for the next project?

It's an interesting article, but I have call BS on the entire thing.

First, I think there is a ridiculous notion that AI is really "intelligent" about what it does. They are at best mutations of the existing based on massive input sets. And they get lucky when they actually work out. Most of them are trained based on such leftist datasets that they have to be shut down - as evidenced by at least one AI which started threatening to kill its users.

What is AI really good at? Trying to make sense of massive data sets. That's it. It's not going to invent new machines. It's not going to invent new products unless they are simply minor modifications of existing things. AI isn't going to produce truly novel ideas. And if you think that about AI, I strongly suggest you do more reading. Can it take an existing idea, parse through its vast stores, and then write up documentation about that in a compelling fashion? Sure, because it has such a huge trove of real literature to mimic. But is AI going to be writing the next Harry Potter or Game of Thrones franchise? Not going to happen.

Second is the claim that within 25 years AI is going to do 80% of the jobs we currently do. That claim is just outright preposterous. It can probably take over the 10% of jobs which shouldn't even exist in the first place (like government bureaucrats) but it's never going to be able to replace anything that moves. Heavy construction? I can go on and on.

But the bigger thing which neither the article nor this bloviating VC touch on is exactly what portion of the world's people AI is going to benefit nor what those who get displaced by AI are going to do. No one should be fooled for a minute into believing that AI is going to replace subsistence farming in Africa. Nor should we be deluded into believing that the people who get replaced by AI are going to suddenly make a living doing ... nothing.

"The simple truth is that knowledge acquired in the past by those who aimed to be doctors, accountants, and all sorts of other professions, will not be relevant in the future."

What a tremendous LIE. Knowledge is ALWAYS important. Anyone who believes this tripe is willing away their own purpose and existence.

So if education becomes truly irrelevant. How will we maintain the equipment that enables all of these great advancements. Yes, I understand that we can make machines that will replicate or build other machines and that that could go on ad infinetum but unless AI actually does reach the Singularity and we trust it to manage literally EVERYTHING. We must have at least some individuals with education to maintain/ repair/ improve the systems that would then run our lives.

Disembodied AI can’t fix a power line. Or unclog a drain. And robotics is no where near what would be required. I should know. I installed them. But I do know who’s jobs will be in peril. If a person was able to “work from home” they’re in trouble. Tick Tock Tick Tock
I already refuse to work in the electrical trade anymore for anything besides Silver Dollars. Since face value is just a dollar one can easily understand the tax implications.

Oh! Let's celebrate huge numbers of totally failed human beings because AI will come to the rescue! BS!!!

Disagree, it may be a sign of age, but well, we have all seen this sort of claim before about some technology advancing to eliminate jobs and work and it will be such a good thing.

The other replies here have explained, yes some work and some jobs will go, for the most part what is called now as 'the laptop class', no regrets.
It is the old style trades that continue to be in demand. Today's youth want to go to U and do social science or claptrap then get a job in an office.

They have neither the intellect nor the dedication to become professionals, they will do the dirty work of which there is no end.