The same can be said for any piece of technology that leads to job loss. Job loss should be seen as a benefit in these cases but the problem is with our economic system where it predominantly benefits a small percentage.
That said, AI benefits a lot more than just the wealthy, especially compared to say automating a factory. Most state of the art models are open source and anyone who can afford a GPU or the 1.50$ an hour to rent one can benefit.
The same can be said for any piece of technology that leads to job loss. Job loss should be seen as a benefit in these cases but the problem is with our economic system where it predominantly benefits a small percentage.
That said, AI benefits a lot more than just the wealthy, especially compared to say automating a factory. Most state of the art models are open source and anyone who can afford a GPU or the 1.50$ an hour to rent one can benefit.
Same thing happened when skilled labor was being replaced by machines in 1800s with the Luddites.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Looking at post-industrial wealth distribution, they weren’t entirely wrong.
They very clearly were wrong for painting technology as the problem. The problem is and was capitalism.