[Parka3458]

In 2019, I read "AI-Superpowers" by Kai-Fu Lee, where he went through most of the worries we have today. In the final chapters however, he started talking more about how we, as humans, need to adapt, and he also mentioned UBI as a (possible) way forward.

At some point, AI indeed will "replace" what people like you (and me, who has pretty much the same background as you) do. We are just tools that knows how to code.

Quite a big part of my time, as part of a large development team, consists of fixing bugs. I believe AI in the near future will be able to solve those, based on input and expectations. Someone still needs to verify the code, and take responsibility for the changes, before they're released to production. This is where I think developers will be needed. I don't think you'll ever find a PO so frisky as to just release it, unless for maybe very small domains.

But.. we'll all get hit. And the way I see it, developers are not in the direct line of fire.

I hope UBI will never actually happen, even though they're testing it out several places in the world recently. I also hope a One World Government will never happen, even though it looks like we're heading for it. I also hope WHO, UN and NATO will not gain the power they seem to strive for, but I don't see much resistance.

Instead.. what I do personally, which might be a solution for you also, is to try to embrace it. These years are quite unique in the history of the human kind. It's a mixture of 1984, Terminator 2, Ex Machina and more. I have a bad feeling about it all, but at the same time I'm curious, and still have hope. But also, I'll try to resist the sinister parts of it whenever I get the chance.

[thaway_thaway34]

Scifi just became real, and I don’t like it.

In many ways GPT-4 does a better impression of a human than any we have seen in Star Trek. Data couldn’t understand humor.

We were so sure of our own complexity, we projected onto the AI characters weaknesses. Then an AI comes up doing jokes in any topic you throw at it in any way you like.

Yet still some suggest I must be trolling with my post. I know my take is quite pessimistic but far from exaggeration, I didn’t even get as far as suggesting any SciFi level dangers in longer term.