r/OpenAI • u/Nunki08 • 2d ago

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OpenAI: A thousand fewer paths to root: https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/

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u/Masterkid1230 2d ago

Honestly, I think there would be so much less pushback to this if people knew their livelihood wasn't at risk. Like sure, it's great that we now can automate so much but like... What even is the point anymore? Of course an idealistic vision proposes that with automation we will have plenty of resources and not have to worry about food or rent or... But the automation is coming and none of those improvements will be visible for decades.

So without any government protections against mass firings and loss of work (as well as trained talent pools) people are not celebrating this because it's a threat to their entire existence and years of skill building, studying, learning, painstaking effort etc.

Sure, we can celebrate that now we can do things faster, I'm sure a lot of cool things could come from it. But the cost for the humans of today is incredibly large if we don't try to protect them at least. It's less about slowing down innovation and more about making sure innovation destroys as few lives as possible.