Excellent essay Katie. Did you notice how much energy an AI needs to produce a piece of art or music. As for bullshit jobs who knows how many of them will survive, the calculus of how much energy it takes to replace a human doing it I guess. But there are bigger AI dangers for humans. Note: https://daneke.medium.com/it-is-a-thing-thing-openai-artificial-general-intelligence-and-the-emergence-of-alien-life-on-432877b548c3 As for females, apparently they think that no Ellen Ripleys are needed. Except we need them more than ever.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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