Sam Altman, of OpenAI and ChatGPT fame, has been getting philosophical of late, taking a step back and looking at the grand technocratic path ahead. He clearly considers himself the saviour of the world through his transhumanist agenda. “My work at OpenAI reminds me every day about the magnitude of the socioeconomic change that is coming sooner than most people believe.” And these changes involve worker replacement of a surprising number of jobs, as he sees AI able to “do anything that you’d be happy with a remote coworker doing just behind a computer, which includes learning how to go be a doctor, learning how to go be a very competent coder.” The reference to coding is instructive as hat was usually cited b y the AI gurus as a field where displaced workers should retrain: “just learn coding.”
If AI progresses at this rate it will probably even replace the Sam Altman’s of he world, who will also become redundant, according to the vision of our AI overlords.
