From WSJopinion: “What if AI also had the potential to displace tens of millions of blue-collar workers? This is a stark reality to many families that cannot afford to be overlooked,” writes Peter Iossa, a student at Pennsylvania State University
Humans are an incredibly adaptable species. With the advent of livestock and domestic pets, for example, we invented new symbiotic relations that went on to define our civilization. Artificial intelligence as it exists today is already radically changing our economy, with computers usurping traditionally human professions and humans mobilizing to maintain them.
AI has contributed to the development of chatbots, facial-recognition programs and targeted advertising. The benefits to society are clear to see. But what if AI also had the potential to displace tens of millions of blue-collar workers? This is a stark reality to many families that cannot afford to be overlooked. Some careers that face severe risks of automation in the coming years include cashiers, receptionists and even pilots.
Abstract arguments about whether AI are sentient ignore the real impact artificial intelligence has on society. The Turing Test rests on whether an AI seems human, suggesting that the true impact of AI is the way it shapes how we perceive one another.
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