"An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy, politics, and social lives. Yet most people are still going about their business, oblivious as dinosaurs in the shadow of a descending asteroid.
This is what many in and around the AI industry believe, anyway.
Except, in this telling, the invisible force that’s about to change our world isn’t a virus that will rip through the population and then ebb. Rather, it is an information technology that will irreversibly transform (if not extinguish) white-collar labor, accelerate scientific progress, destabilize political systems, and, perhaps, get us all killed.
Of course, such apocalyptic chatter has always hummed in the background of the AI discourse. But it’s grown much louder in recent weeks.
This week, Matt Shumer, the CEO of HyperWrite, an AI productivity company, published a viral essay arguing that we’re on the cusp of “something much, much bigger than COVID.” Over the past year, Shumer wrote, tech workers had watched AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do” — and that “is the experience everyone else is about to have.”"
https://www.vox.com/politics/478794/ai-economy-claude-code-jobs-openai-anthropic
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