Humanoid robots are the next prospective tech bubble. Venture capitalists put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots just in 2024. [Yahoo!; Bloomberg, archive] The New York Times was bowled over by 1X’s…
I mean, yeah, you’re right. However, the amount of jobs that robots like this would displace is astronomical. Like, the U.S. trucking industry is one of the biggest employers in the United States, so if ever we were to get truly automated trucking, the job losses would be catastrophic to millions of Americans. One can assume that something would have to be done to help ease the transition, likely in the form of stimulus checks and subsidized education. But that’s just for one industry.
These autonomous robots could be deployed in seemingly every industry, resulting in the potential loss of hundreds of millions of jobs (assuming widespread adoption and construction, that is). One would think that in order for society to continue, vast socialist reforms would have to be undertaken. The alternative would be something akin to having a couple people with the wealth and power of todays superpower nations, while the rest of humanity lives in abject squalor. I’d like to think that humans wouldn’t let things get that bad…
but even as I type that out I know it’s a lie 😥 ugh. Fucking humans, man.
They’re not humans, the ones who will inflict this upon us (except of course that AI is bullshit). They’re at best lizards, intellectually speaking (and with about the same moral standing).
I mean, yeah, you’re right. However, the amount of jobs that robots like this would displace is astronomical. Like, the U.S. trucking industry is one of the biggest employers in the United States, so if ever we were to get truly automated trucking, the job losses would be catastrophic to millions of Americans. One can assume that something would have to be done to help ease the transition, likely in the form of stimulus checks and subsidized education. But that’s just for one industry.
These autonomous robots could be deployed in seemingly every industry, resulting in the potential loss of hundreds of millions of jobs (assuming widespread adoption and construction, that is). One would think that in order for society to continue, vast socialist reforms would have to be undertaken. The alternative would be something akin to having a couple people with the wealth and power of todays superpower nations, while the rest of humanity lives in abject squalor. I’d like to think that humans wouldn’t let things get that bad…
but even as I type that out I know it’s a lie 😥 ugh. Fucking humans, man.
They’re not humans, the ones who will inflict this upon us (except of course that AI is bullshit). They’re at best lizards, intellectually speaking (and with about the same moral standing).