The future of work will not be decided by now 60+ year olds in another 10-15 year; Millennials and Gen Z are not growing conservative as they age into and through their 30s as Gen X and Boomers did. Generational churn is a huge wildcard.
If I can just ask for a certain arbitrary machine state (with some yet unrealized future version of AI) who needs programmers?
We’ll need to vet AI output so there will still be knowledge work; we’re not going to let the AI decide to launch nukes, or inject whatever level of morphine it wants.
Data entry (programming being specialized data entry; code is a data model of primitives for a compiler/interpreter) work at a computer is not long for this world but analysis will be.
What empathy were you expecting in a nation that refuses to pass easy access to healthcare for all?
When was making living through art guaranteed? Society has mocked artists for centuries.
Let them make art and give them a UBI.
AI will replace programmers too; if a user can ask a future AI to organize their machines state into an arbitrary video game, photorealistic movie, generate reports from sources abc, weighing for xyz on a bar chart; only the AI code base (whatever boot strapping and runtime it needs) becomes necessary.
Why would I ask an AI that can produce the end result to produce code? Code is just minimized ideal machine state.
You’re correct; there is a lot of empathy lacking in our culture, but it’s not just when it comes to art.
The future of work will not be decided by now 60+ year olds in another 10-15 year; Millennials and Gen Z are not growing conservative as they age into and through their 30s as Gen X and Boomers did. Generational churn is a huge wildcard.