Lee considers the debate around AGI, AI as a platform and the immense potential of modular operations + AI to improve the way we build and manage organisations
What has been considered in the application and impact of AI platforms on the workforce? Will the increased "productivity" result in some more equitable distribution of the benefits or a further concentration of these profits into even fewer hands (of those that already control the capital)? Will we have a 3 or 4 day week on the same pay due to the speed at which we might now be able to deliver with the possibility of employing two people at a 3 day week (each on full pay), OR, as I would suggest evidence supports... will the entry level, junior and even mid-tier jobs disappear as companies become more "efficient", downsize the labour costs and keep the profits for the top tier of managers, partners and shareholders?
The ethics of these big shifts in our use of technology, as usual, trail a long way behind their application.
I think there is a case for hope, a levy on the use of these (and other) automation technologies that replace labour to provide a universal basic income and an increased quality of life for the majority of people, BUT also a case for fear, as these technologies further disinfranchise, disempower and marginalise the have-nots in society. There is also a fear that these new technologies, AIs in particular, are programmed with some of the personal, institutional and cultural inequalities of our time and, if anything then embed these into the substrata of their very being, entrenching the hegemony even further.
Personally, I see far more cost than benefit because of the hands that these technologies are in and because of the paucity of constraints or considerations applied to them.
In my view, currently, I'm inclined to support the calls for a moratorium on their development and application, or simply put, "burn them all with fire"!
Very insightful as always. But still the open question for me remains - how do we evolve towards the "collaborative enterprise" while the markets favor the efficiency that AI brings towards the workplace in reassembling old ideas. And to be fair - AI also helps to bring new insights and new creatives to our world if used in a intelligent way - but used as in the example above to generate "plausible b**" work it will IMHO rather support the existing hierarchy and bureaucracy as it plays by its rules.
Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.
What has been considered in the application and impact of AI platforms on the workforce? Will the increased "productivity" result in some more equitable distribution of the benefits or a further concentration of these profits into even fewer hands (of those that already control the capital)? Will we have a 3 or 4 day week on the same pay due to the speed at which we might now be able to deliver with the possibility of employing two people at a 3 day week (each on full pay), OR, as I would suggest evidence supports... will the entry level, junior and even mid-tier jobs disappear as companies become more "efficient", downsize the labour costs and keep the profits for the top tier of managers, partners and shareholders?
The ethics of these big shifts in our use of technology, as usual, trail a long way behind their application.
I think there is a case for hope, a levy on the use of these (and other) automation technologies that replace labour to provide a universal basic income and an increased quality of life for the majority of people, BUT also a case for fear, as these technologies further disinfranchise, disempower and marginalise the have-nots in society. There is also a fear that these new technologies, AIs in particular, are programmed with some of the personal, institutional and cultural inequalities of our time and, if anything then embed these into the substrata of their very being, entrenching the hegemony even further.
Personally, I see far more cost than benefit because of the hands that these technologies are in and because of the paucity of constraints or considerations applied to them.
In my view, currently, I'm inclined to support the calls for a moratorium on their development and application, or simply put, "burn them all with fire"!
Very insightful as always. But still the open question for me remains - how do we evolve towards the "collaborative enterprise" while the markets favor the efficiency that AI brings towards the workplace in reassembling old ideas. And to be fair - AI also helps to bring new insights and new creatives to our world if used in a intelligent way - but used as in the example above to generate "plausible b**" work it will IMHO rather support the existing hierarchy and bureaucracy as it plays by its rules.