Summary

Experts warn that AI could replace many entry-level jobs in the near future, potentially leading to widespread unemployment. There are calls for people to own and control their AI tools, rather than relying on large companies or governments. The future of work may shift from direct labor to managing AI systems, allowing everyone to benefit from AI advancements.

Highlights

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In the post-AGI world, an AI can likely do your work better and cheaper than you.

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A commonly proposed solution for an impending era of technological unemployment is government-granted universal basic income (UBI). But this could dramatically change how citizens participate in society because work is most people’s primary bargaining chip. Our modern world is upheld with a simple exchange: you work for someone with money to pay you, because you have time or skills that they don’t have.

UBI. Interesante idea de que esta solución le quita cualquier palanca al “proletariado”, en términos de su capacidad de negociación con quienes provean estos ingresos universales.

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. As a result, your company won’t need you to increase their profits and your government won’t need you for their tax revenue.

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We could face what we call “The Intelligence Curse”, which is when powerful actors such as governments and companies create AGI, and subsequently lose their incentives to invest in people.

La maldición de la inteligencia

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And as AI gets ever more powerful and autonomous, building human-boosting tools today could set the stage for human-owned tools tomorrow. AI tools could capture the tacit knowledge visible to you every day and turn it into your personal data moat.

Esto se puede relacionar con mi intuición al combinar un ITE como Obsidian, en donde manualmente escribo mis ideas, con un LLM como Claude conectado por MCP.

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